Patents by Inventor Harald Zweck

Harald Zweck 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).

  • Publication number: 20240126866
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander ZEH, Harald ZWECK
  • Patent number: 11945451
    Abstract: An electronic anomaly detection unit for use in a vehicle includes an input component for capturing an input variable, wherein the input variable contains state information for at least one component of the vehicle, a memory component for storing state values based on the input variable, a selection component for selecting selected state values from the stored state values, an association component for associating the selected state values with predefined values, wherein the predefined values define a normal state of the component of the vehicle, and a decision component for deciding whether there is an anomalous behavior in the at least one component of the vehicle, based on the association, wherein one or more of the input component, the memory component, the selection component, the association component and the decision component are implemented in hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Zeh, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 11816201
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Zeh, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 11705987
    Abstract: An apparatus for handling an incoming communication data frame containing a plurality of bits is provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of data matchers, each data matcher configured to compare a subset of the plurality of bits of the communication data frame with a predetermined data pattern of a plurality of data patterns and to provide a data matcher output to indicate the result of the data matcher comparison, a plurality of selectors, each selector configured to compare a subset of the data matcher outputs of the plurality of data matchers with a predetermined selection pattern of a plurality of selection patterns and to provide a selector output to indicate the result of the selector comparison, and a frame filter configured to transfer the incoming frame to application logic only if the selector outputs of the plurality of selectors match a predetermined filter pattern, and to also transfer the selector outputs of the plurality of selectors to the application logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Wai Keung Frankie Chan, Klaus Scheibert, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20230056018
    Abstract: A traffic anomaly detector of a Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) system, including filters configured to filter headers of PCIe transaction layer packets (TLPs) based on respective filter criterion; a classifier configured to trigger an event based on one of the filter criterion or a logical combination of a plurality of the filter criteria; an event counter configured to count a number of the events; and a processor configured to detect, based on a value of the event counter, an anomaly in the PCIe TLP traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lin Li, Varun Kumar, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20220294607
    Abstract: A sender configured to participate in an in-vehicle network is configured to receive a request for transmitting a payload and generate, in response, a first header in a transport layer and/or a network layer. The sender is further configured to access a key of k bytes length and to generate an authentication tag using the key and at least the first header as additional authentication data. The authentication tag serves to indicate an authenticity of a first frame on the transport and/or network layer as an original frame sent from the sender to a receiver. The sender is configured to generate the first frame comprising the first header, a transport layer payload, and the authentication tag and forward the first frame to the data link layer. The data link layer generates a second frame on the data link layer and transmits the second frame to the in-vehicle network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander ZEH, Vivin Richards ALLIMUTHU ELAVARASU, Harald ZWECK
  • Publication number: 20220261471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander ZEH, Harald ZWECK
  • Publication number: 20220255963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Zeh, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 11321442
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Zeh, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20210376954
    Abstract: An apparatus for handling an incoming communication data frame containing a plurality of bits is provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of data matchers, each data matcher configured to compare a subset of the plurality of bits of the communication data frame with a predetermined data pattern of a plurality of data patterns and to provide a data matcher output to indicate the result of the data matcher comparison, a plurality of selectors, each selector configured to compare a subset of the data matcher outputs of the plurality of data matchers with a predetermined selection pattern of a plurality of selection patterns and to provide a selector output to indicate the result of the selector comparison, and a frame filter configured to transfer the incoming frame to application logic only if the selector outputs of the plurality of selectors match a predetermined filter pattern, and to also transfer the selector outputs of the plurality of selectors to the application logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Wai Keung Frankie Chan, Klaus Scheibert, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20210294889
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander ZEH, Harald ZWECK
  • Publication number: 20200023858
    Abstract: An electronic anomaly detection unit for use in a vehicle includes an input component for capturing an input variable, wherein the input variable contains state information for at least one component of the vehicle, a memory component for storing state values based on the input variable, a selection component for selecting selected state values from the stored state values, an association component for associating the selected state values with predefined values, wherein the predefined values define a normal state of the component of the vehicle, and a decision component for deciding whether there is an anomalous behavior in the at least one component of the vehicle, based on the association, wherein one or more of the input component, the memory component, the selection component, the association component and the decision component are implemented in hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander ZEH, Harald ZWECK
  • Patent number: 10191795
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for timeout monitoring of concurrent commands or parallel communication channels comprising assigning or de-assigning each one of the commands or communication channels to a corresponding one of a plurality of timeout timers when corresponding commands are to be transmitted or command acknowledges are received respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl Herz, Ljudmil Anastasov, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20170293519
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for timeout monitoring of concurrent commands or parallel communication channels comprising assigning or de-assigning each one of the commands or communication channels to a corresponding one of a plurality of timeout timers when corresponding commands are to be transmitted or command acknowledges are received respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Karl Herz, Ljudmil Anastasov, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 9727400
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for timeout monitoring of concurrent commands or parallel communication channels comprising assigning or de-assigning each one of the commands or communication channels to a corresponding one of a plurality of timeout timers when corresponding commands are to be transmitted or command acknowledges are received respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Ag
    Inventors: Karl Herz, Ljudmil Anastasov, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 9569384
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller. The DMA controller includes a bus controller having a system bus interface and configured to read a pattern from a memory location via the system bus interface. Pattern comparison logic compares the read pattern to at least one predetermined pattern. Control logic induces the bus controller to process a first conditional link over the system bus interface if the read pattern differs from the predetermined pattern, and induces the bus controller to process a second conditional link over the system bus interface if the read pattern differs from the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Hellwig, Simon Cottam, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20160041862
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for timeout monitoring of concurrent commands or parallel communication channels comprising assigning or de-assigning each one of the commands or communication channels to a corresponding one of a plurality of timeout timers when corresponding commands are to be transmitted or command acknowledges are received respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Karl Herz, Ljudmil Anastasov, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 9201719
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for timeout monitoring of concurrent commands or parallel communication channels comprising assigning or de-assigning each one of the commands or communication channels to a corresponding one of a plurality of timeout timers when corresponding commands are to be transmitted or command acknowledges are received respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl Herz, Ljudmil Anastasov, Harald Zweck
  • Patent number: 8934597
    Abstract: A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit having an expanded operating frequency range is achieved by providing multiple DLLs, each having a different range of operating frequencies. A selection mechanism selects the DLL with the appropriate operating frequency range. The output of the selected DLL is used as the output of the delay locked loop circuit and is fed back to the input of the selected DLL so as to achieve phase lock with an input signal. The selection mechanism can operate in accordance with, among other things, a metallization mask option, the state of one or more pins, the state of one or more bits of a software accessible register or storage device, or the output of a frequency detector which detects the frequency of the input clock signal. The selection mechanism can also cause the selected DLL to be activated and the unselected DLL(s) to be deactivated, thereby conserving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stefan Jacob, Martin Peisl, Harald Zweck
  • Publication number: 20140281098
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller. The DMA controller includes a bus controller having a system bus interface and configured to read a pattern from a memory location via the system bus interface. Pattern comparison logic compares the read pattern to at least one predetermined pattern. Control logic induces the bus controller to process a first conditional link over the system bus interface if the read pattern differs from the predetermined pattern, and induces the bus controller to process a second conditional link over the system bus interface if the read pattern differs from the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Hellwig, Simon Cottam, Harald Zweck