Inventor · Durham, NC, US

Donald E. Carmon

11Patents
9h-index
18Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 16, 1991 → Jun 23, 1999

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5640563A Multi-media computer operating system and method Physics 81 Expired
US5625845A System for facilitating continuous, real-time, unidirectional, and asynchronous intertask and end-device communication in a multimedia data processing system using open architecture data communication modules Electricity 74 Expired
US5404522A System for constructing a partitioned queue of DMA data transfer requests for movements of data between a host processor and a digital signal processor Physics 60 Expired
US5535380A System to reduce latency for real time interrupts Physics 55 Expired
US6085218A Monitoring processor execution cycles to prevent task overrun in multi-task, hard, real-time system Physics 51 Expired
US5291468A Method and apparatus for synchronizing the readout of a sequential media device with a separate clocked device Physics 28 Expired
US5630132A Method and apparatus for facilitating real-time and asynchronous loading and temporally-overlapping of modular multimedia software tasks in a multimedia data processing system Physics 26 Expired
US5724587A System for controlling task execution in a host processor based upon the maximum DMA resources available to a digital signal processor Physics 24 Expired
US5724583A System for handling requests for DMA data transfers between a host processor and a digital signal processor Physics 14 Expired
US5978867A System for counting clock cycles stolen from a data processor and providing the count value to a second processor accessing the data processor cycle resources Physics 4 Expired
US6470400B1 Apparatus for pacing cycle steals from a data processor and methods for implementing the same Physics 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.