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Dennis Ma
Also filed as: MA DENNIS · MA DENNIS K · MA DENNIS K D · MA DENNIS KD
24 granted patents·4 pending applications·344 citations·filing 2001–2018
94Inventor score
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28 records- 0198US6938176B1Method and apparatus for power management of graphics processors and subsystems that allow the subsystems to respond to accesses when subsystems are idleNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 30, 2005·228 cites·47 claims
- 0293US7126608B2Graphics processor and system with microcontroller for programmable sequencing of power up or power down operationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 24, 2006·12 cites·20 claims
- 0389US8108879B1Method and apparatus for context switching of multiple enginesGARLICK LINCOLN G·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 31, 2012·27 cites·19 claims
- 0485US7467289B1Indicating acknowledge of stable state of pipeline resource when freeze bit set and context switch inhibitedNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 16, 2008·16 cites·18 claims
- 0583US8532098B2System and method for virtual channel communicationREED DAVID·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 10, 2013·18 cites·20 claims
- 0678US7483032B1Zero frame bufferNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 27, 2009·4 cites·23 claims
- 0777US6963340B1Graphics processor and system with microcontroller for programmable sequencing of power up or power down operationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 8, 2005·14 cites·37 claims
- 0869US8897352B2Multipass approach for performing channel equalization trainingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 25, 2014·4 cites·19 claims
- 0968US9626320B2Technique for scaling the bandwidth of a processing element to match the bandwidth of an interconnectNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 18, 2017·2 cites·22 claims
- 1065US7205973B2Gradual dimming of backlit displaysNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 17, 2007·9 cites·30 claims
- 1164US9690736B2Managing state transitions of a data connector using a finite state machineMA DENNIS·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 27, 2017·4 cites·24 claims
- 1258US8547993B1Asynchronous interface for communicating between clock domainsGARLICK LINCOLN G·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 1, 2013·2 cites·23 claims
- 1358US8392667B2Deadlock avoidance by marking CPU traffic as specialDUNCAN SAMUEL H·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 5, 2013·2 cites·17 claims
- 1456US9727521B2Efficient CPU mailbox read access to GPU memoryMA DENNIS K·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 8, 2017·1 cites·21 claims
- 1555US10333565B2Safe communication mode for a high speed linkNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 25, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 1653US2005268141A1Method and apparatus for power management of graphics processors and subsystems thereofALBEN JONAH·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 1750US10003362B2Safe communication mode for a high speed linkNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 19, 2018·0 cites·19 claims
- 1850US9720768B2System and method for early packet header verificationNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 1, 2017·0 cites·17 claims
- 1948US10200154B2System and method for early packet header verificationNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 5, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 2046US9996490B2Technique for scaling the bandwidth of a processing element to match the bandwidth of an interconnectNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 12, 2018·0 cites·22 claims
- 2146US9954984B2System and method for enabling replay using a packetized link protocolNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 24, 2018·0 cites·20 claims
- 2246US8726283B1Deadlock avoidance skid bufferRUBINSTEIN OREN·Filed 2007·Granted May 13, 2014·1 cites·20 claims
- 2344US9424227B2Providing byte enables for peer-to-peer data transfer within a computing environmentDUNCAN SAMUEL H·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 23, 2016·0 cites·23 claims
- 2442US2014173148A1Approach for working around starvation problems in a datapathNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
- 2542US2008028181A1Dedicated mechanism for page mapping in a gpuNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2640US9390042B2System and method for sending arbitrary packet types across a data connectorHUANG WEI-JE·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 12, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
- 2736US2014307766A1Iteratively scanning equalization coefficients to optimize signal quality in a data communication linkNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Application pending·0 cites
- 2834US9164766B1System and method for hardware assisted stackWONG ARON L·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 20, 2015·0 cites·17 claims
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