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Anthony P. Delaurier, Los Altos, CA US
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| 20090309896 | Multi Instance Unified Shader Engine Filtering System With Level One and Level Two Cache - Apparatus and systems utilizing multiple shader engines where each shader engine comprises multiple rows of shader engine filters combined with level one and level two cache systems. Each unified shader engine filter comprises a shader pipe array, and a texture mapping unit with access to a level one cache system and a level two cache. The shader pipe array accepts texture requests for a specified pixel from a resource and performs associated rendering calculations, outputting texel data. The texture mapping unit retrieves texel data stored in a level one cache system, with the ability to read and write to and from a level two cache system, and through formatting and bilinear filtering interpolations generates a formatted bilinear result based on the specific pixel's neighboring texels. Utilizing multiple rows of shader engine filters within a shader engine allows for the parallel processing of multiple simultaneous resource requests. Utilizing multiple shader engines allows for greater processing through the use of multiple simultaneous processing. A method utilizing multiple shader engines to perform texture mapping is also presented. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090315909 | Unified Shader Engine Filtering System - Each row of a row based shader engine comprises a shader pipe array, a texture filter, and a level one texture cache system. The shader pipe array accepts texture requests for a specified pixel from a resource and performs associated rendering calculations, outputting texel data. The texture mapping unit receives texel data from a level one cache system and through formatting and bilinear filtering interpolations, generates a formatted bilinear result based on a specific pixel's corresponding four texels. Utilizing multiple rows of a row based shader engine within the shader engine allows for the parallel processing of multiple simultaneous resource requests. A method for texture filtering utilizing a row based shader engine is also presented. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100146211 | Shader Complex with Distributed Level One Cache System and Centralized Level Two Cache - A shader pipe texture filter utilizes a level one cache system as a primary method of storage but with the ability to have the level one cache system read and write to a level two cache system when necessary. The level one cache system communicates with the level two cache system via a wide channel memory bus. In addition, the level one cache system can be configured to support dual shader pipe texture filters while maintaining access to the level two cache system. A method utilizing a level one cache system as a primary method of storage with the ability to have the level one cache system read and write a level two cache system when necessary is also presented. In addition, level one cache systems can allocate a defined area of memory to be sharable amongst other resources. | 06-10-2010 |
Anthony P. Delaurier, Los Gatos, CA US
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| 20090295819 | Floating Point Texture Filtering Using Unsigned Linear Interpolators and Block Normalizations - Apparatus and systems utilizing fixed point filtering to perform floating point texture filtering. A texture pipe unit consisting of a texture addressing unit, texture cache unit, and texture filter unit accepts texture requests for a specified pixel from a resource and returns formatted bilinear filtered results based on the specific pixel's corresponding four texels. The texture filtering unit consists of a pre-formatter module, interpolator module, accumulator module and a format module. The pre-formatter module accepts texel data in a floating point or fixed point format. However, if the data is in a floating point format the pre-formatter module converts the floating point data into a normalized fixed point data format whereby the interpolator module may perform its bilinear interpolator functions using standardized fixed point systems and apparatus without necessitating the use of floating point arithmetic units. A method utilizing fixed point filtering to perform floating point texture filtering is also presented. | 12-03-2009 |
Art Delaurier, Parkland, FL US
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| 20100274571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VEHICLE SERVICE LEADS AND VEHICLE SALES LEADS - A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated cost of ownership of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated value of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, and generating at least one of a vehicle service lead and a vehicle sales lead related to the vehicle. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274631 | System and Method For Generating Vehicle Sales Leads - A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated value of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, and generating a vehicle purchase lead related to the vehicle. | 10-28-2010 |
Arthur Delaurier, Parkland, FL US
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| 20120005070 | SALES LEAD GENERATION SYSTEM USING A CREDIT SCORE SURVEY - The invention is directed to a system for and a method of generating sales leads as a service for one or more vehicle dealerships that are not otherwise affiliated with the service. The invention may include maintaining a web site independently of the one or more vehicle dealerships that is accessible over a computer network by a consumer who is considering purchasing a vehicle, offering to the consumer while the consumer is accessing the web site to provide the consumer with an estimated credit score, wherein the consumer provides the consumer's contact information before the estimated credit score is provided, outputting a credit score survey to the consumer over the computer network, receiving one or more answers to the credit score survey from the consumer over the computer network, receiving information indicative of the vehicle transmitted from the consumer over the computer network, the information indicative of the vehicle comprising one or more selected from the group consisting of year, make, model, style, and color of the vehicle, receiving contact information of the consumer transmitted from the consumer over the computer network, determining, independently of the one or more vehicle dealerships, the estimated credit score by applying at least one scoring algorithm to the one or more answers to the credit score survey, providing the estimated credit score over the computer network to the consumer, and transmitting the contact information of the consumer, the estimated credit score, and the information indicative of the vehicle to the one or more vehicle dealerships as a sales lead. | 01-05-2012 |
Diane Delaurier, Parkland, FL US
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| 20100274631 | System and Method For Generating Vehicle Sales Leads - A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated value of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, and generating a vehicle purchase lead related to the vehicle. | 10-28-2010 |
Dianne Delaurier, Parkland, FL US
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| 20100274571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VEHICLE SERVICE LEADS AND VEHICLE SALES LEADS - A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated cost of ownership of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated value of the vehicle based on at least the vehicle profile data, and generating at least one of a vehicle service lead and a vehicle sales lead related to the vehicle. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20120005070 | SALES LEAD GENERATION SYSTEM USING A CREDIT SCORE SURVEY - The invention is directed to a system for and a method of generating sales leads as a service for one or more vehicle dealerships that are not otherwise affiliated with the service. The invention may include maintaining a web site independently of the one or more vehicle dealerships that is accessible over a computer network by a consumer who is considering purchasing a vehicle, offering to the consumer while the consumer is accessing the web site to provide the consumer with an estimated credit score, wherein the consumer provides the consumer's contact information before the estimated credit score is provided, outputting a credit score survey to the consumer over the computer network, receiving one or more answers to the credit score survey from the consumer over the computer network, receiving information indicative of the vehicle transmitted from the consumer over the computer network, the information indicative of the vehicle comprising one or more selected from the group consisting of year, make, model, style, and color of the vehicle, receiving contact information of the consumer transmitted from the consumer over the computer network, determining, independently of the one or more vehicle dealerships, the estimated credit score by applying at least one scoring algorithm to the one or more answers to the credit score survey, providing the estimated credit score over the computer network to the consumer, and transmitting the contact information of the consumer, the estimated credit score, and the information indicative of the vehicle to the one or more vehicle dealerships as a sales lead. | 01-05-2012 |