Patents by Inventor Keith E. Horton

Keith E. Horton 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).

  • Programming interface for data communications
    Patent number: 8752063
    Abstract: In embodiments of a programming interface for data communications, a request queue and a completion queue can be allocated from a user-mode virtual memory buffer that corresponds to an application. The request queue and the completion queue can be pinned to physical memory and then mapped to kernel-mode system addresses so that the request queue and the completion queue can be accessed by a kernel-mode execution thread. A request can be received from an application for the kernel to handle data in the request queue, and a system issued to the kernel for the kernel-mode execution thread to handle the request. The kernel-mode execution thread can then handle additional requests from the application without additional system calls being issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Osman N. Ertugay, Keith E. Horton, Joseph Nievelt
  • PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120331480
    Abstract: In embodiments of a programming interface for data communications, a request queue and a completion queue can be allocated from a user-mode virtual memory buffer that corresponds to an application. The request queue and the completion queue can be pinned to physical memory and then mapped to kernel-mode system addresses so that the request queue and the completion queue can be accessed by a kernel-mode execution thread. A request can be received from an application for the kernel to handle data in the request queue, and a system issued to the kernel for the kernel-mode execution thread to handle the request. The kernel-mode execution thread can then handle additional requests from the application without additional system calls being issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Osman N. Ertugay, Keith E. Horton, Joseph Nievelt