Patents by Inventor James R. Cuffney

James R. Cuffney 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: 9928032
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9928135
    Abstract: A method for delocalizing an error checking on a data in a pipelined processor from the data checked. A first check-data is generated at a first location on a first data. A second location receives the first data and the first check-data. A second check-data is generated on the first data and the first check-data is compared with the second check-data at the second location. A second data is generated from the first data and a third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location. A third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location and the second data is transferred to a third location. The third check-data is transferred to a fourth location. A fourth check-data is generated on the second data and is transferred to the fourth location. The fourth check-data and the third check-data are compared at the fourth location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Carlough, James R. Cuffney, Michael Klein, Silvia M. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170364328
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, JR., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, JR.
  • Patent number: 9766859
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9734126
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling post-silicon configurable instruction behavior are provided. For example, the method includes receiving data related to a compute circuit. The method also includes detecting a data pattern in the data. The method further includes determining that the data pattern is a special case that the compute circuit may handle improperly. The method also includes selecting a value from a post-silicon configurable data set based on the detected data. Further, the method includes changing a behavior of the compute circuit to produce a different output result based on the value selected from the post-silicon configurable data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Nicol Hofmann, Michael Klein, Petra Leber, Cédric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller, Timothy J. Slegel
  • Patent number: 9715420
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, Jr., Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9697074
    Abstract: A method for delocalizing an error checking on a data in a pipelined processor from the data checked. A first check-data is generated at a first location on a first data. A second location receives the first data and the first check-data. A second check-data is generated on the first data and the first check-data is compared with the second check-data at the second location. A second data is generated from the first data and a third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location. A third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location and the second data is transferred to a third location. The third check-data is transferred to a fourth location. A fourth check-data is generated on the second data and is transferred to the fourth location. The fourth check-data and the third check-data are compared at the fourth location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Internatioanl Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Carlough, James R. Cuffney, Michael Klein, Silvia M. Mueller
  • Patent number: 9588838
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, Jr., Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170052763
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, JR., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, JR.
  • Patent number: 9535659
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9501262
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to vectorized Galois field multiplication. An aspect includes an input of first and second input operands of equal sizes into a single hardware tree, a calculation of a predicted parity as a parity of the first input operand ANDed with a parity of the second input operand, a comparison of the predicted parity with a parity generated on a final result of a Galois field multiplication of the first and second operands and a raising of an error based on a mismatch between the predicted parity and the generated parity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9471281
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to vectorized Galois field multiplication. An aspect includes a subdivision of first and second input operands into vector elements of equal sizes with multiple modes defined such that a base mode has a size corresponding to a smallest vector element size, which is a factor of a size of the first and second input operands, and a higher mode has a size that is a multiple of the base mode size. The vector elements of the first input operand are modified with a bit mask based on a size of the vector elements. The modified vector elements of the first input operand and the vector elements of the second input operand are input into a single hardware tree configured for subdivision into staggered subtrees a size of each of which being based on the base mode size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160266959
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, Jr., Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9436434
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160210182
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, JR., Patrick M. West, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160211850
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, JR., Patrick M. West, JR.
  • Patent number: 9389955
    Abstract: An apparatus for comparing strings comprises a first and a second set of input registers, a matrix of comparator circuits wherein rows of the matrix correspond to the first set of input registers and columns of the matrix correspond to the second set of input registers, a set of row control registers wherein each register corresponds to a row of the matrix of the comparator circuits, the matrix of comparator circuits configured to compare data provided by the first set of registers with data provided by the second set of registers according to the row control registers, and an error detection circuit configured to compare results from four comparator circuits corresponding to two adjacent rows and two columns of the matrix of comparator circuits. A method that invokes the above mentioned apparatus is also disclosed herein, along with a computer program product corresponding to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, Timothy J. Koprowski, John G. Rell, Jr., Patrick M. West, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160179468
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: James R. Cuffney, John G. Rell, JR., Eric M. Schwarz, Patrick M. West, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160170828
    Abstract: A method for delocalizing an error checking on a data in a pipelined processor from the data checked. A first check-data is generated at a first location on a first data. A second location receives the first data and the first check-data. A second check-data is generated on the first data and the first check-data is compared with the second check-data at the second location. A second data is generated from the first data and a third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location. A third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location and the second data is transferred to a third location. The third check-data is transferred to a fourth location. A fourth check-data is generated on the second data and is transferred to the fourth location. The fourth check-data and the third check-data are compared at the fourth location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Steven R. Carlough, James R. Cuffney, Michael Klein, Silvia M. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20160170829
    Abstract: A method for delocalizing an error checking on a data in a pipelined processor from the data checked. A first check-data is generated at a first location on a first data. A second location receives the first data and the first check-data. A second check-data is generated on the first data and the first check-data is compared with the second check-data at the second location. A second data is generated from the first data and a third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location. A third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location and the second data is transferred to a third location. The third check-data is transferred to a fourth location. A fourth check-data is generated on the second data and is transferred to the fourth location. The fourth check-data and the third check-data are compared at the fourth location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Steven R. Carlough, James R. Cuffney, Michael Klein, Silvia M. Mueller