Patents by Inventor James R. Hearn

James R. Hearn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230353508
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a system within a package. In some examples, the system includes a communication fabric and circuitry to adjust a packet throughput rate associated with the communication fabric based at least in part on incoming receive rate across multiple input ports and fabric usage. In some examples, the communication fabric is to communicatively couple devices in the package including one or more of: an accelerator, a processor, a memory, or a network interface device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kapil SOOD, Patrick CONNOR, Scott P. DUBAL, James R. HEARN, Brendan RYAN, Chris MACNAMARA, Conor WALSH, David HUNT, John J. BROWNE, Kevin LAATZ
  • Publication number: 20230297410
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a trusted and secure emulated device. The emulated device can be assigned to a service based on attestation of a hardware platform of the emulated device, assignment of the emulated device to a trust domain, and attestation of a device configuration associated with the emulated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kapil SOOD, Scott P. DUBAL, Patrick CONNOR, James R. HEARN
  • Publication number: 20230106581
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to extending a first trust domain of a service to a service mesh interface executed in a network interface device and to at least one device coupled to the network interface device. In some examples, extending the first trust domain of the service to the service mesh interface executed in the network interface device and to the at least one device coupled to the network interface device includes causing execution of the service mesh interface in a second trust domain in the network interface device; providing a third trust domain for the at least one device, when connected to the network interface device; and extending the first trust domain into the second trust domain or the third trust domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kapil SOOD, Patrick CONNOR, Scott P. DUBAL, James R. HEARN
  • Publication number: 20220329573
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a executing a service mesh in a trust domain in a network interface device and executing one or more services in a second trust domain in one or more devices. In some examples, the network interface device is configured to determine trust domain capabilities of the network interface device and provide the trust domain capabilities based on a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kapil SOOD, Patrick CONNOR, Scott P. DUBAL, James R. HEARN, Andrew J. HERDRICH
  • Publication number: 20220279057
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a network interface device. In some examples, the network interface device is to receive a request to transmit data, based on a first reliable transport protocol, and cause the data to be transmitted in at least one packet, based on a second reliable transport protocol, to a destination device and receive at least one packet, from a sender device, based on the second reliable transport protocol and indicate receipt of the at least one packet, based on the first reliable transport protocol, wherein the first reliable transport protocol is different than the second reliable transport protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick CONNOR, Scott P. DUBAL, James R. HEARN, Andrew J. HERDRICH, Kapil SOOD
  • Patent number: 11036531
    Abstract: Examples may include techniques to live migrate a virtual machine (VM) using disaggregated computing resources including compute and memory resources. Examples include copying data between allocated memory resources that serve as near or far memory for compute resources supporting the VM at a source or destination server in order to initiate and complete the live migration of the VM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Connor, James R. Hearn, Scott P. Dubal, Andrew J. Herdrich, Kapil Sood
  • Publication number: 20210041929
    Abstract: An I/O controller includes a port to couple to a network, a buffer to buffer network data, and an interface to support a link to couple the I/O controller to another device. The I/O controller monitors a buffer to determine an amount of traffic on the port, initiates, at the interface, a power management transition on the link based on the amount of traffic, and mitigate latency associated with the power management transition at the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Lewis Connor, James R. Hearn, Kevin D. Liedtke, Scott P. Dubal, Benjamin Cheong, Rafael Guerra
  • Publication number: 20200322287
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a switch device for a rack of two or more physical servers, wherein the switch device is coupled to the two or more physical servers and the switch device performs packet protocol processing termination for received packets and provides payload data from the received packets without a received packet header to a destination buffer of a destination physical server in the rack. In some examples, the switch device comprises at least one central processing unit, the at least one central processing unit is to execute packet processing operations on the received packets. In some examples, a physical server executes at least one virtualized execution environments (VEE) and the at least one central processing unit executes a VEE for packet processing of packets with data to be accessed by the physical server that executes the VEE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick CONNOR, James R. HEARN, Kevin LIEDTKE, Scott P. DUBAL
  • Publication number: 20200257518
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin LIEDTKE, James R. HEARN, Scott P. DUBAL, Jeffery OLIVER, Patrick J. McLAUGHLIN, Sharada Ashok SHIDDIBHAVI, Daniel K. OSAWA, Kelly J. COUCH, Maciej PLUCINSKI
  • Publication number: 20200257517
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a circuit board that includes a device, firmware memory, and a power controller. In some examples, the firmware memory is to store a firmware update and in response to a software-initiated command, the power controller is to reduce power to the device to cause a firmware update of the device and restore power to the device to cause execution of the firmware update. In some examples, the power controller is to reduce power solely to the device independent from power supply to at least one other device. In some examples, device configuration is saved prior to reduction of power to the device and restored to the device after power is restored to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Larry R. SEATER, Benjamin CHEONG, Manishkumar T. RANA, Stephen A. FIFE, James R. HEARN, Kevin LIEDTKE
  • Publication number: 20200177660
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to providing a streaming protocol packet segmentation offload request to a network interface. The request can specify a segment of content to transmit and meta data associated with the content. The offload request can cause the network interface to generate at least one header field value for the packet and insert at least one header field prior to transmission of the packet. In some examples, the network interface generates a validation value for a transport layer protocol based on the packet with the inserted at least one header field. Some examples provide for pre-packetized content to be stored and available to copy to the network interface. In such examples, the network interface can modify or update certain header fields prior to transmitting the packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick CONNOR, James R. HEARN, Kevin LIEDTKE
  • Publication number: 20190317802
    Abstract: Examples are described herein that can be used to offload a sequence of work events to one or more accelerators to a work scheduler. An application can issue a universal work descriptor to a work scheduler. The universal work descriptor can specify a policy for scheduling and execution of one or more work events. The universal work descriptor can refer to one or more work events for execution. The work scheduler can, in some cases, perform translation of the universal work descriptor or a work event descriptor for compatibility and execution by an accelerator. The application can receive notice of completion of the sequence of work from the work scheduler or an accelerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander BACHMUTSKY, Andrew J. HERDRICH, Patrick CONNOR, Raghu KONDAPALLI, Francesc GUIM BERNAT, Scott P. DUBAL, James R. HEARN, Kapil SOOD, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Matthew J. ADILETTA
  • Patent number: 10423783
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to recover a processor state during a system failure or security event are disclosed. An example apparatus to recover data includes a processor including a local memory and a system monitor in communication with the processor. The system monitor is to copy processor backup data to a non-volatile memory in response to a processor backup event. The processor backup data includes contents of the local memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Pavlas, James R. Hearn, Scott P. Dubal, Patrick Connor
  • Publication number: 20190052457
    Abstract: Technologies for providing efficient sharing of encrypted data in a disaggregated architecture include a sled. The sled includes a set of memory devices and a controller connected to the set of memory devices. The memory controller is to receive, from a first application executed by a compute sled, a data access request to share a data set between the first application and a second application. The data set is encrypted in one or more of the memory devices. Additionally, the controller is to determine, in response to the data access request, a key identifier that uniquely identifies a key that is usable to perform cryptographic operations on the data set. Further, the controller is to send, to an encryption key manager, a request to provide the key corresponding to the key identifier to be used by the second application to decrypt the data set and send, to the second application, a handle associated with an address in the set of memory devices where the data set is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Patrick Connor, Scott Dubal, Andrew J. Herdrich, James R. Hearn, Kapil Sood
  • Publication number: 20180373553
    Abstract: Examples may include techniques to live migrate a virtual machine (VM) using disaggregated computing resources including compute and memory resources. Examples include copying data between allocated memory resources that serve as near or far memory for compute resources supporting the VM at a source or destination server in order to initiate and complete the live migration of the VM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick CONNOR, James R. Hearn, Scott P. DUBAL, Andrew J. HERDRICH, Kapil SOOD
  • Patent number: 10063446
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for collection of Netflow data and export offload using network silicon. In accordance with aspects of the embodiments, the Netflow export and collection functions are offloaded to the network silicon in the chipset, System on a Chip (SoC), backplane switch, disaggregated switch, virtual switch (vSwitch) accelerator, and Network Interface Card/Controller (NIC) level. For apparatus implementing virtualized environments, one or both of the collection and export functions are implemented at the Physical Function (PF) and/or Virtual Function (VF) layers of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Scott P. Dubal, James R. Hearn, Patrick Connor
  • Publication number: 20180181421
    Abstract: An example computer system for transferring a packet includes a hypervisor to run a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine. The computer system also includes a first memory address space associated with the first virtual machine to store the packet. The computer system further includes a second memory address space associated with the second virtual machine to receive and store the packet. The computer system also includes a virtual switch coupled to the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine to detect that the packet is to be sent from the first virtual machine to the second virtual machine. The computer system further includes a direct memory access device to copy the packet from the first memory address space to the second memory address space via the direct memory access device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick Connor, Scott P. Dubal, James R. Hearn, Iosif Gasparakis, Chris Pavlas, Eliezer Tamir
  • Publication number: 20180173580
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to recover a processor state during a system failure or security event are disclosed. An example apparatus to recover data includes a processor including a local memory and a system monitor in communication with the processor. The system monitor is to copy processor backup data to a non-volatile memory in response to a processor backup event. The processor backup data includes contents of the local memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Chris Pavlas, James R. Hearn, Scott P. Dubal, Patrick Connor
  • Patent number: 9992212
    Abstract: Technologies for handling malicious activity of a virtual network driver include a network computing device on which a virtual machine is being executed and the virtual network driver is managing communication between the physical network interface controller and the virtual function network adapter. The network computing device is configured to monitor events handled by the virtual network driver to detect malicious activity and update one or more malicious event tracking variables corresponding to a type of malicious activity event detected. The network computing device is further configured to compare one or more of the malicious event tracking variables to a corresponding malicious event threshold and perform an action on the virtual function driver in response to a determination that one or more of the malicious event tracking variables indicates that the corresponding malicious event threshold has been violated. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Hearn, Matthew Vick
  • Patent number: 9826656
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of apparatuses and methods related to a moveable server rack in a data center. The server rack may include a chassis with a plurality of servers and a receptacle to couple with a mobile robot. The mobile robot may move the server rack from a first location to a second location in a data center. The server rack may include indices of alignment to provide an indication of docking alignment of the server rack to at least the second docking location, a power connector system to connect a main power source to the plurality of servers at the second location, and an input/output connector to connect a data center network to the plurality of servers at the second location. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Connor, Scott P. Dubal, James R. Hearn