Patents by Inventor Jay LAWLOR

Jay LAWLOR 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).

  • Apparatus and Method for an Efficient System Management Mode
    Publication number: 20240320002
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a more efficient system management mode. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of cores, at least a first core of the plurality of cores to perform operations to cause the plurality of cores to enter into a system management mode (SMM), the operations comprising: allocating a memory region for a system management RAM (SMRAM); writing an SMRAM state save location to a first register; and generating a page table in the SMRAM, including mapping a virtual address space a physical address space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jay LAWLOR, David SHEFFIELD, Xiang ZOU, Michael KINNEY, Charles HOLTHAUS, Thomas TOLL, Salessawi Ferede YITBAREK, Andreas KLEEN, Keshavan TIRUVALLUR, Sarathy JAYAKUMAR, Ruiyu NI