Patents by Inventor Gilad Hammer

Gilad Hammer 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).

  • Maintaining packet order in offload of packet processing functions
    Patent number: 10382350
    Abstract: Network interface apparatus includes a host interface and a network interface, which receives packets in multiple packet flows destined for one or more virtual machines running on a host processor. Packet processing circuitry receives a first instruction from the host processor to offload preprocessing of the data packets in a specified flow in accordance with a specified rule, and initiates preprocessing of the data packets while writing one or more initial data packets from the specified flow to a temporary buffer. Upon subsequently receiving a second instruction to enable the specified rule, the initial data packets are delivered from the temporary buffer, after preprocessing by the packet processing circuitry, directly to a virtual machine to which the specified flow is destined, followed by preprocessing and delivery of subsequent data packets in the specified flow to the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dror Bohrer, Noam Bloch, Lior Narkis, Hillel Chapman, Gilad Hammer
  • Maintaining packet order in offload of packet processing functions
    Publication number: 20190081904
    Abstract: Network interface apparatus includes a host interface and a network interface, which receives packets in multiple packet flows destined for one or more virtual machines running on a host processor. Packet processing circuitry receives a first instruction from the host processor to offload preprocessing of the data packets in a specified flow in accordance with a specified rule, and initiates preprocessing of the data packets while writing one or more initial data packets from the specified flow to a temporary buffer. Upon subsequently receiving a second instruction to enable the specified rule, the initial data packets are delivered from the temporary buffer, after preprocessing by the packet processing circuitry, directly to a virtual machine to which the specified flow is destined, followed by preprocessing and delivery of subsequent data packets in the specified flow to the virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Dror Bohrer, Noam Bloch, Lior Narkis, Hillel Chapman, Gilad Hammer