Patents by Inventor Hema Joyce

Hema Joyce 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).

  • Hash bucket spin locks
    Publication number: 20070005920
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to a processor need to acquire a lock on a connection context associated with a packet, determining a connection context for the packet by determining a hash bucket associated with the packet, the hash bucket including the connection context, determining if the processor has a spin lock on the hash bucket, and if the processor does not have a spin lock on the hash bucket, acquiring the spin lock on the hash bucket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Bacon, Linden Cornett, Hema Joyce, Sujoy Sen, Ashish Shah