Patents by Inventor Rafi Weiner

Rafi Weiner 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).

  • Streaming system
    Patent number: 11277455
    Abstract: A method including configuring a transmit process to store information including a queue of packets to be transmitted, the queue defining transmit process packets to be transmitted, each packet associated with a transmission time, and configuring a synchronization process to receive from the transmit process at least some of the information. The synchronization process performs one of: A) accessing a dummy send queue and a completion queue, and transmitting one or more of the transmit process packets in accordance with a completion queue entry in the completion queue, and B) sends a doorbell to transmission hardware at a time when at least one of the transmit process packets is to be transmitted, the synchronization process including a master queue configured to store transmission entries, each transmission entry including a transmit process indicator and an indication of transmit process packets to be transmitted. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Alex Vainman, Natan Manevich, Nir Nitzani, Ilan Smith, Richard Hastie, Noam Bloch, Lior Narkis, Rafi Weiner
  • Streaming System
    Publication number: 20190379714
    Abstract: A method including configuring a transmit process to store information including a queue of packets to be transmitted, the queue defining transmit process packets to be transmitted, each packet associated with a transmission time, and configuring a synchronization process to receive from the transmit process at least some of the information. The synchronization process performs one of: A) accessing a dummy send queue and a completion queue, and transmitting one or more of the transmit process packets in accordance with a completion queue entry in the completion queue, and B) sends a doorbell to transmission hardware at a time when at least one of the transmit process packets is to be transmitted, the synchronization process including a master queue configured to store transmission entries, each transmission entry including a transmit process indicator and an indication of transmit process packets to be transmitted. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Alex Vainman, Natan Manevich, Nir Nitzani, Ilan Smith, Richard Hastie, Noam Bloch, Lior Narkis, Rafi Weiner