Patents by Inventor Lin-Ming HSU

Lin-Ming HSU 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: 12253960
    Abstract: The invention provides method and system for improving efficiency of protecting multi-content process. The system may cooperate with a memory, and may comprise one or more hardware IPs (intellectual properties) for content processing, one of the one or more IPs may be associated with multiple access identities. The memory may comprise multiple different ranges, each range may register an access of one of the multiple access identities as a permissible access. The method may comprise: selecting one of the access identities for processing a first content, and using the selected access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the first content; selecting a different one of the access identities for processing a second content, and using the selected different access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the second content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Tien Chang, Lin-Ming Hsu, Chun-Ming Chou
  • Publication number: 20240201874
    Abstract: A system on chip includes a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) controller, a secure range (SR) permission checker, a plurality of intellectual property (IP) cores. The DRAM controller includes a SR table configured to store a start address, an end address, and enabled registers of each SR and an access identification (AID) permission table configured to store access permissions of SRs of each AID. The SR permission checker is embedded in the DRAM controller or a bus and linked to the SR table and the AID permission table, and configured to check the access permissions of the SRs according to the AID permission table. The plurality of IP cores linked to the DRAM controller, and comprising a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) comprising an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) table or an input-output memory protection unit (IOMPU) table to store SR information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Tien Chang, Lin-Ming Hsu, Chun-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11386019
    Abstract: The present invention discloses data secure method, applied to a storage device, and performed by a controller of the storage device. The data secure method comprises: receiving a buffer clear command from an external processing unit, wherein the buffer clear command indicates that a first secure area corresponding to a first physical address range of a buffer memory of the storage device is required to be cleared, and a first secure key is corresponding to the first secure area for accessing the first secure area; and in response to the buffer clear command, configuring a secure unit of the storage device to cause the secure unit to use one or more second keys different from the first secure key when accessing the first physical address range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Tien Chang, Ching-Ming Chen, Wei-Hsun Lin, Lin-Ming Hsu, Tsung-Wei Hung
  • Publication number: 20220035751
    Abstract: The invention provides method and system for improving efficiency of protecting multi-content process. The system may cooperate with a memory, and may comprise one or more hardware IPs (intellectual properties) for content processing, one of the one or more IPs may be associated with multiple access identities. The memory may comprise multiple different ranges, each range may register an access of one of the multiple access identities as a permissible access. The method may comprise: selecting one of the access identities for processing a first content, and using the selected access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the first content; selecting a different one of the access identities for processing a second content, and using the selected different access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the second content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yu-Tien CHANG, Lin-Ming HSU, Chun-Ming CHOU