Patents by Inventor Farouk HEBBACHE

Farouk HEBBACHE 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).

  • Time-division multiplexing method and circuit for arbitrating concurrent access to a computer resource based on a processing slack associated with a critical program
    Patent number: 12045671
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method implemented by computer for arbitration between computer programs seeking to access a shared resource concurrently and each transmitting an access request. The method performs time-division multiple access according to which the time is divided into time slots, each of which is allocated to a critical program for access to the shared resource, each time slot comprising a plurality of time units. The method exploits a processing slack associated with each critical program in order to delay a processing deadline for an access request transmitted by the critical program. The method comprises, for each unit time, a step of selecting a waiting access request and a step of determining authorization for immediate processing of the selected access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Farouk Hebbache, Mathieu Jan, Florian Brandner, Laurent Pautet
  • TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR CONCURRENT ACCESS TO A COMPUTER RESOURCE
    Publication number: 20210397488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method implemented by computer for arbitration between computer programs seeking to access a shared resource concurrently and each transmitting an access request. The method performs time-division multiple access according to which the time is divided into time slots, each of which is allocated to a critical program for access to the shared resource, each time slot comprising a plurality of time units. The method exploits a processing slack associated with each critical program in order to delay a processing deadline for an access request transmitted by the critical program. The method comprises, for each unit time, a step of selecting a waiting access request and a step of determining authorization for immediate processing of the selected access request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Farouk HEBBACHE, Mathieu JAN, Florian BRANDNER, Laurent PAUTET