IBM Patents Graphics Rendering on a Network On Chip
IBM was granted a patent that describes technology that integrates graphics rendering on a network on chip (NOC) device.
IBM filed the patent in February 2008 and got the confirmation after an unusually short time frame. The NOC claimed by IBM includes integrated processor (IP) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and a network interface controller. The IP blocks in the patent feature at least one geometry processor, a plurality of scan converters, and a multiple pixel processors.
The description of the graphics capability of the NOC is scarce, but IBM is referring to very basic graphics processing capability throughout the document. According to IBM, claims the rights to a: "method comprising: receiving, in the geometry processor, a representation of an object to be rendered; converting, by the geometry processor, the representation of the object to two dimensional primitives; sending, by the geometry processor, the primitives to the plurality of scan converters; converting, by the scan converters, the primitives to fragments, each fragment comprising one or more portions of a pixel; for each fragment: selecting, by the scan converter for the fragment in dependence upon sorting rules, a pixel processor to process the fragment; sending, by the scan converter to the pixel processor, the fragment; and processing, by the pixel processor, the fragment to produce pixels for an image."
Additional claims include software drivers.
Then I'm going to sit and do nothing until someone makes a useful version of my patent and then I'll sue their ass off! Patents rule, yeah!
Then I'm going to sit and do nothing until someone makes a useful version of my patent and then I'll sue their ass off! Patents rule, yeah!
I'm afraid so.
Could you provide us with a technical document showing how that is done, it would be very interesting to see how you manage to overcome the problem of Neurone decay whilst transmitting via Z-particles.
IBM has been the number 1 highest submitter of new patent ideas for the last 17 consecutive years, some of their ideas take decades to reach fruition and some of them are not even for "computers" as such. Almost 5000 last year and a further 4000 that it didn't patent and push out into the world on free license so other people could innovate further without fear of litigation.
IBM are not patent trolls, which is what you are implying, they actually make things and get this, they don't just buy up patents, they spend big in R&D to get this lot to the tune of $6 billion a year.
There are things that IBM has made that you don't even know and they are in every persons house, used every day whilst they work, shop, play.
Magnetic strip, such as on the back of credit cards
Electonic weighing scales
Bar codes
Hard drives
Transistor memory, the standard for all computer RAM
The PC/At, the standard for all home PCs
Laser eye surgery
UV dental treatment
Electronic catalogue, for online shopping
They pretty much invented the 21st century, welcome to IBMs world
Luckily IBM isn't a patent troll
There are things that IBM has made that you don't even know and they are in every persons house, used every day whilst they work, shop, play.
I'm not implying that IBM are patent trolls and I don't care about anyone's past accomplishments; what's done is done. What I'm pissed off about is the fact that the article is titled "patented"... can we talk about the invention instead of a patent?
You need to work on your terminology, but yeah, here you go: http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/proton-based-transistor-could-let-machines-communicate-with-living-things
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