Patents by Inventor Erik Zuroski

Erik Zuroski 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).

  • Patent number: 11880466
    Abstract: A game cloud server, a method of operating a cloud server, and a method of playing a game on a game cloud server are disclosed. In one example, the game cloud server includes: (1) one or more processing units that virtually supports different gaming applications according to a gaming operating mode, and (2) an operating mode selector that is coupled to the one or more processing units and has (2A) a virtual fusing register that selects the gaming operating mode for executing the different virtually supported gaming applications, and (2B) a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the gaming operating mode, separately from executing an operating system of the one or more processing units, wherein the gaming operating mode is a reconfigurable operating mode selectable from at least one signed license file of the documented security files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Apoorv Gupta, Ryan Speiser, Varun Kumar, Tony Cheng, Erik Zuroski
  • Publication number: 20210042417
    Abstract: A game cloud server, a method of operating a cloud server, and a method of playing a game on a game cloud server are disclosed. In one example, the game cloud server includes: (1) one or more processing units that virtually supports different gaming applications according to a gaming operating mode, and (2) an operating mode selector that is coupled to the one or more processing units and has (2A) a virtual fusing register that selects the gaming operating mode for executing the different virtually supported gaming applications, and (2B) a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the gaming operating mode, separately from executing an operating system of the one or more processing units, wherein the gaming operating mode is a reconfigurable operating mode selectable from at least one signed license file of the documented security files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Apoorv Gupta, Ryan Speiser, Varun Kumar, Tony Cheng, Erik Zuroski
  • Patent number: 10817609
    Abstract: A secure reconfigurable operating mode system includes a hardware device having multiple operating modes and an operating mode selector that is coupled to the hardware device. The operating mode selector has a virtual fusing register that selects an operating mode for the hardware device and a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the operating mode. A method of secure hardware device operating mode reconfiguration is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Apoorv Gupta, Ryan Speiser, Varun Kumar, Tony Cheng, Erik Zuroski
  • Publication number: 20170091458
    Abstract: A secure reconfigurable operating mode system includes a hardware device having multiple operating modes and an operating mode selector that is coupled to the hardware device. The operating mode selector has a virtual fusing register that selects an operating mode for the hardware device and a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the operating mode. A method of secure hardware device operating mode reconfiguration is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Apoorv Gupta, Ryan Speiser, Varun Kumar, Tony Cheng, Erik Zuroski
  • Patent number: 9489924
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting a boot display device in the multi-GPU configured computing device include a graphic initialization routine for determining a topology of a plurality of GPUs. It is then determined if a display is coupled to any of the plurality of GPUs. The determination of whether the display is coupled to a GPU is communicated to the other of the plurality of GPUs based upon the determined topology. Thereafter, selection of a given GPU as a primary boot device, by a system initialization routine, is influenced by representing each GPU not coupled to the display as a graphics device and the GPUs coupled to a given display as the primary boot device if one or more displays are coupled to GPUs, and by representing the given GPU as the primary boot device and all other GPUs as graphics devices when the display is not coupled to any of the GPUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hans Wolfgang Schulze, Ryan Speiser, Erik Zuroski, Samuel Duell, James Van Veghel