Patents by Inventor Dror Borer

Dror Borer 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).

  • Method, system and protocol that enable unrestricted user-level access to a network interface adapter
    Patent number: 7653754
    Abstract: A method for preventing deadlock in communication between a host software application and a network interface card (NIC), comprises writing a doorbell associated with at least one descriptor having a descriptor context to a buffer in the NIC, dropping at least one doorbell from the buffer if the buffer is full, thereby allowing a write of a new doorbell to the buffer, and recovering each dropped doorbell for further execution of descriptors associated with this doorbell. The descriptor execution is in order of posting by the application to the NIC. A system implementing the method comprises a doorbell drop mechanism and a doorbell recovery mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Kagan, Benny Koren, Dror Goldenberg, Gilad Shainer, Gil Bloch, Ariel Shachar, Ophir Turbovich, Dror Borer, Diego Crupnicoff
  • Method, system and protocol that enable unrestricted user-level access to a network interface adapter
    Publication number: 20050198410
    Abstract: A method for preventing deadlock in communication between a host software application and a network interface card (NIC), comprises writing a doorbell associated with at least one descriptor having a descriptor context to a buffer in the NIC, dropping at least one doorbell from the buffer if the buffer is full, thereby allowing a write of a new doorbell to the buffer, and recovering each dropped doorbell for further execution of descriptors associated with this doorbell. The descriptor execution is in order of posting by the application to the NIC. A system implementing the method comprises a doorbell drop mechanism and a doorbell recovery mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Kagan, Benny Koren, Dror Goldenberg, Gilad Shainer, Gil Bloch, Ariel Shachar, Ophir Turbovich, Dror Borer, Diego Crupnicoff