Patents by Inventor Bradley Burres
Bradley Burres 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).
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Publication number: 20200349100Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for presentation of direct accessed storage under a logical drive model; for implementing a distributed architecture for cooperative NVM Data protection; data mirroring for consistent SSD latency; for boosting a controller's performance and RAS with DIF support via concurrent RAID processing; for implementing arbitration and resource schemes of a doorbell mechanism, including doorbell arbitration for fairness and prevention of attack congestion; and for implementing multiple interrupt generation using a messaging unit and NTB in a controller through use of an interrupt coalescing scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Thomas M. Slaight, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark Schmisseur, Pankaj Kumar, Saptarshi Mondal, Sin S. Tan, David C. Lee, Marc T. Jones, Geetani R. Edirisooriya, Bradley A. Burres, Brian M. Leitner, Kenneth C. Haren, Michael T. Klinglesmith, Matthew R. Wilcox, Eric J. Dahlen
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Publication number: 20200278893Abstract: Examples described herein relate to migrating a virtualized execution environment from a first platform to a second platform while retaining use of namespace identifiers and permitting issuance of storage transactions by the virtualized execution environment. The first platform can include a first central processing unit or a first network interface. The second platform can include a central processing unit that is different that the first central processing unit and a network interface that is the same or different than the first network interface. The second platform can retain access permissions and target media format independent of one or more identifiers associated with the migrated virtualized execution environment at the second platform. Unperformed storage transactions can be migrated to the second platform for execution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Jose NIELL, Bradley A. BURRES, Kiel BOYLE, David NOELDNER, Keith SHAW, Karl P. BRUMMEL
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Publication number: 20200125495Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a semiconductor chip package. The semiconductor chip package includes an SOC. The SOC has a memory controller. The semiconductor chip package includes an interface to an external memory. The semiconductor chip package includes a memory side cache. The memory side cache is composed of eDRAM and is coupled between the memory controller and the interface to the external memory. The eDRAM is to cache more frequently used items of the external memory. The semiconductor chip package has an out-of-order interface between the memory controller and the memory side cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Duane E. GALBI, Bradley A. BURRES, Matthew J. ADILETTA, Hugh WILKINSON, Aaron GORIUS
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Patent number: 10628615Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) provisioned for asset protection has a primary circuit portion, such as a microprocessor or system-on-chip, that can be selectively disabled and enabled via an operability control input. The IC includes a secure register to store lock state indicia and unlock criteria, where a signal at the operability control input is responsive to the lock state indicia. In operation, a firmware data store receives and stores firmware code that includes a lock/unlock command, and firmware data that includes an unlock key. An authorization module verifies authenticity of the firmware code. A lock/unlock (LUL) module is operative to write lock state indicia to the secure register based on the lock/unlock command only in response to a positive verification of the authenticity of the firmware code by the authorization module, and to write lock state indicia to the secure register.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ramamurthy Krithivas, Donald C. Soltis, Jr., Bradley Burres
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Publication number: 20200104275Abstract: Some examples provide a manner of a memory transaction requester to configure a target to recognize a memory address as a non-local or non-shared address. An intermediary between the requester and the target configures a control plane layer of the target to recognize that a memory transaction involving the memory address is to be performed using a direct memory access operation. The intermediary is connected to the requester as a local device or process. After configuration, a memory transaction provided to the target with the configured memory address causes the target to invoke use of the associated direct memory access operation to retrieve content associated with the memory address or write content using a direct memory access operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Sujoy SEN, Susanne M. BALLE, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Bradley A. BURRES
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Publication number: 20200073846Abstract: Technologies for flexible I/O protocol acceleration include a computing device having a root complex, a smart endpoint coupled to the root complex, and an offload complex coupled to the smart endpoint. The smart endpoint receives an I/O transaction that originates from the root complex and parses the I/O transaction based on an I/O protocol and identifies an I/O command. The smart endpoint may parse the I/O transaction based on endpoint firmware that may be programmed by the computing device. The smart endpoint accelerates the I/O command and provides a smart context to the offload complex. The smart endpoint may copy the I/O command to memory of the smart endpoint or the offload complex. The smart endpoint may identify protocol data based on the I/O command and copy the protocol data to the memory of the smart endpoint or the offload complex. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Matthew J. Adiletta, Bradley Burres, Duane Galbi, Amit Kumar, Yadong Li, Salma Mizra, Jose Niell, Thomas E. Willis, William Duggan
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Publication number: 20200042479Abstract: Apparatus and methods implementing a hardware queue management device for reducing inter-core data transfer overhead by offloading request management and data coherency tasks from the CPU cores. The apparatus include multi-core processors, a shared L3 or last-level cache (“LLC”), and a hardware queue management device to receive, store, and process inter-core data transfer requests. The hardware queue management device further comprises a resource management system to control the rate in which the cores may submit requests to reduce core stalls and dropped requests. Additionally, software instructions are introduced to optimize communication between the cores and the queue management device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Ren Wang, Yipeng Wang, Andrew Herdrich, Jr-Shian Tsai, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Niall D. McDonnell, Hugh Wilkinson, Bradley A. Burres, Bruce Richardson, Namakkal N. Venkatesan, Debra Bernstein, Edwin Verplanke, Stephen R. Van Doren, An Yan, Andrew Cunningham, David Sonnier, Gage Eads, James T. Clee, Jamison D. Whitesell, Jerry Pirog, Jonathan Kenny, Joseph R. Hasting, Narender Vangati, Stephen Miller, Te K. Ma, William Burroughs
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Publication number: 20200004713Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: BALAJI PARTHASARATHY, RAMAMURTHY KRITHIVAS, BRADLEY BURRES, PAWEL SZYMANSKI, Yi-Feng LIU
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Patent number: 10445271Abstract: Apparatus and methods implementing a hardware queue management device for reducing inter-core data transfer overhead by offloading request management and data coherency tasks from the CPU cores. The apparatus include multi-core processors, a shared L3 or last-level cache (“LLC”), and a hardware queue management device to receive, store, and process inter-core data transfer requests. The hardware queue management device further comprises a resource management system to control the rate in which the cores may submit requests to reduce core stalls and dropped requests. Additionally, software instructions are introduced to optimize communication between the cores and the queue management device.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ren Wang, Namakkal N. Venkatesan, Debra Bernstein, Edwin Verplanke, Stephen R. Van Doren, An Yan, Andrew Cunningham, David Sonnier, Gage Eads, James T. Clee, Jamison D. Whitesell, Yipeng Wang, Jerry Pirog, Jonathan Kenny, Joseph R. Hasting, Narender Vangati, Stephen Miller, Te K. Ma, William Burroughs, Andrew J. Herdrich, Jr-Shian Tsai, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Niall D. McDonnell, Hugh Wilkinson, Bradley A. Burres, Bruce Richardson
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Publication number: 20190087610Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) provisioned for asset protection has a primary circuit portion, such as a microprocessor or system-on-chip, that can be selectively disabled and enabled via an operability control input. The IC includes a secure register to store lock state indicia and unlock criteria, where a signal at the operability control input is responsive to the lock state indicia. In operation, a firmware data store receives and stores firmware code that includes a lock/unlock command, and firmware data that includes an unlock key. An authorization module verifies authenticity of the firmware code. A lock/unlock (LUL) module is operative to write lock state indicia to the secure register based on the lock/unlock command only in response to a positive verification of the authenticity of the firmware code by the authorization module, and to write lock state indicia to the secure register.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Ramamurthy Krithivas, Donald C. Soltis, JR., Bradley Burres
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Patent number: 9996711Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) provisioned for asset protection has a primary circuit portion, such as a microprocessor or system-on-chip, that can be selectively disabled and enabled via an operability control input. The IC includes a secure register to store lock state indicia and unlock criteria, where a signal at the operability control input is responsive to the lock state indicia. In operation, a firmware data store receives and stores firmware code that includes a lock/unlock command, and firmware data that includes an unlock key. An authorization module verifies authenticity of the firmware code. A lock/unlock (LUL) module is operative to write lock state indicia to the secure register based on the lock/unlock command only in response to a positive verification of the authenticity of the firmware code by the authorization module, and to write lock state indicia to the secure register.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ramamurthy Krithivas, Donald C. Soltis, Jr., Bradley Burres
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Publication number: 20180081847Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: BALAJI PARTHASARATHY, RAMAMURTHY KRITHIVAS, BRADLEY BURRES, PAWEL SZYMANSKI, Yi-Feng LIU
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Publication number: 20170192921Abstract: Apparatus and methods implementing a hardware queue management device for reducing inter-core data transfer overhead by offloading request management and data coherency tasks from the CPU cores. The apparatus include multi-core processors, a shared L3 or last-level cache (“LLC”), and a hardware queue management device to receive, store, and process inter-core data transfer requests. The hardware queue management device further comprises a resource management system to control the rate in which the cores may submit requests to reduce core stalls and dropped requests. Additionally, software instructions are introduced to optimize communication between the cores and the queue management device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Ren Wang, Yipeng Wang, Andrew J. Herdrich, Jr-Shian Tsai, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Niall D. McDonnell, Hugh Wilkinson, Bradley A. Burres, Bruce Richardson, Namakkal N. Venkatesan, Debra Bernstein, Edwin Verplanke, Stephen R. Van Doren, An Yan, Andrew Cunningham, David Sonnier, Gage Eads, James T. Clee, Jamison D. Whitesell, Jerry Pirog, Jonathan Kenny, Joseph R. Hasting, Narender Vangati, Stephen Miller, Te K. Ma, William Burroughs
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Publication number: 20170124358Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) provisioned for asset protection has a primary circuit portion, such as a microprocessor or system-on-chip, that can be selectively disabled and enabled via an operability control input. The IC includes a secure register to store lock state indicia and unlock criteria, where a signal at the operability control input is responsive to the lock state indicia. In operation, a firmware data store receives and stores firmware code that includes a lock/unlock command, and firmware data that includes an unlock key. An authorization module verifies authenticity of the firmware code. A lock/unlock (LUL) module is operative to write lock state indicia to the secure register based on the lock/unlock command only in response to a positive verification of the authenticity of the firmware code by the authorization module, and to write lock state indicia to the secure register.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Ramamurthy Krithivas, Donald C. Soltis, JR., Bradley Burres
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Publication number: 20160335208Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for presentation of direct accessed storage under a logical drive model; for implementing a distributed architecture for cooperative NVM Data protection; data mirroring for consistent SSD latency; for boosting a controller's performance and RAS with DIF support via concurrent RAID processing; for implementing arbitration and resource schemes of a doorbell mechanism, including doorbell arbitration for fairness and prevention of attack congestion; and for implementing multiple interrupt generation using a messaging unit and NTB in a controller through use of an interrupt coalescing scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Thomas M. Slaight, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark Schmisseur, Pankaj Kumar, Saptarshi Mondal, Sin S. Tan, David C. Lee, Marc T. Jones, Geetani R. Edirisooriya, Bradley A. Burres, Brian M. Leitner, Kenneth C. Haren, Michael T. Klinglesmith, Matthew R. Wilcox, Eric J. Dahlen
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Patent number: 9417821Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for presentation of direct accessed storage under a logical drive model; for implementing a distributed architecture for cooperative NVM Data protection; data mirroring for consistent SSD latency; for boosting a controller's performance and RAS with DIF support via concurrent RAID processing; for implementing arbitration and resource schemes of a doorbell mechanism, including doorbell arbitration for fairness and prevention of attack congestion; and for implementing multiple interrupt generation using a messaging unit and NTB in a controller through use of an interrupt coalescing scheme.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Thomas M. Slaight, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark Schmisseur, Pankaj Kumar, Saptarshi Mondal, Sin S. Tan, David C. Lee, Marc T. Jones, Geetani R. Edirisooriya, Bradley A. Burres, Brian M. Leitner, Kenneth C. Haren, Michael T. Klinglesmith, Matthew R. Wilcox, Eric J. Dahlen
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Patent number: 9244877Abstract: A SATA-compatible storage controller that can be configured to allow computers assigned to multiple different computer domains connected by at least one switch fabric to share resources of a common set of storage devices. The storage controller includes a plurality of virtual storage controllers, each providing an interface to a respective computer domain connected to the switch fabric, a virtualization mechanism configured to implement link layer virtualization for the common set of storage devices, and a split serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) protocol stack, the processing of which is partitioned between the respective virtual storage controllers and the virtualization mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Chengda Yang, Bradley A. Burres, Amit Kumar, Matthew J. Adiletta
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Patent number: 9047082Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) operations on a data block using a plurality of different n-bit polynomials is provided. A flexible CRC instruction performs a CRC operation using a programmable n-bit polynomial. The n-bit polynomial is provided to the CRC instruction by storing the n-bit polynomial in one of two operands.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Vinodh Gopal, Shay Gueron, Gilbert Wolrich, Wajdi Feghali, Kirk Yap, Bradley Burres
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Publication number: 20140281072Abstract: A SATA-compatible storage controller that can be configured to allow computers assigned to multiple different computer domains connected by at least one switch fabric to share resources of a common set of storage devices. The storage controller includes a plurality of virtual storage controllers, each providing an interface to a respective computer domain connected to the switch fabric, a virtualization mechanism configured to implement link layer virtualization for the common set of storage devices, and a split serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) protocol stack, the processing of which is partitioned between the respective virtual storage controllers and the virtualization mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: CHENGDA YANG, BRADLEY A. BURRES, AMIT KUMAR, MATTHEW J. ADILETTA
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Publication number: 20140229807Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) operations on a data block using a plurality of different n-bit polynomials is provided. A flexible CRC instruction performs a CRC operation using a programmable n-bit polynomial. The n-bit polynomial is provided to the CRC instruction by storing the n-bit polynomial in one of two operands.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: VINODH GOPAL, SHAY GUERON, GILBERT WOLRICH, WAJDI FEGHALI, KIRK YAP, BRADLEY BURRES