Patents by Inventor Ned Smith

Ned Smith 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: 11509679
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., non-transitory physical storage media) to provide trust topology selection for distributed transaction processing in computing environments are disclosed herein. Example distributed transaction processing nodes disclosed herein include a distributed transaction application to process a transaction in a computing environment based on at least one of a centralized trust topology or a diffuse trust topology. Disclosed example distributed transaction processing nodes also include a trusted execution environment to protect first data associated with a centralized trust topology and to protect second data associated with a diffuse trust topology. Disclosed example distributed transaction processing nodes further include a trust topology selector to selectively configure the distributed transaction application to use the at least one of the centralized trust topology or the diffuse trust topology to process the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Rajesh Poornachandran
  • Publication number: 20220360646
    Abstract: Switching architectures to manage mutex primitives used to control access to objects or data blocks that are being processed by two or more microservices in a data center are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc GUIM BERNAT, Kshitij A. DOSHI, Ned SMITH, Satish C. JHA, Vesh Raj SHARMA BANJADE, S M Iftekharul ALAM
  • Publication number: 20220357989
    Abstract: Technologies for providing a multi-tenant local breakout switching and dynamic load balancing include a network device to receive network traffic that includes a packet associated with a tenant. Upon a determination that the packet is encrypted, a secret key associated with the tenant is retrieved. The network device decrypts a payload from the packet using the secret key. The payload is indicative of one or more characteristics associated with network traffic. The network device evaluates the characteristics and determines whether the network traffic is associated with a workload requesting compute from a service hosted by a network platform. If so, the network device forwards the network traffic to the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Ned Smith, Kshitij Doshi, Raghu Kondapalli, Alexander Bachmutsky
  • Publication number: 20220272012
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to dynamically composing an application as a monolithic implementation or two or more microservices based on telemetry data. In some examples, based on composition of an application as two or more microservices, at least one connection between microservices based on telemetry data is adjusted. In some examples, a switch can be configured to perform forwarding of communications between microservices based on the adjusted at least one connection between microservices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: S M Iftekharul ALAM, Ned SMITH, Vesh Raj SHARMA BANJADE, Satish C. JHA, Christian MACIOCCO, Mona VIJ, Kshitij A. DOSHI, Srikathyayani SRIKANTESWARA, Francesc GUIM BERNAT, Maruti GUPTA HYDE, Alexander BACHMUTSKY
  • Publication number: 20220263891
    Abstract: Technologies for providing selective offload of execution of an application to the edge include a device that includes circuitry to determine whether a section of an application to be executed by the device is available to be offloaded. Additionally, the circuitry is to determine one or more characteristics of an edge resource available to execute the section. Further, the circuitry is to determine, as a function of the one or more characteristics and a target performance objective associated with the section, whether to offload the section to the edge resource and offload, in response to a determination to offload the section, the section to the edge resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Ned Smith, Thomas Willhalm, Karthik Kumar, Timothy Verrall
  • Publication number: 20220247635
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to control processing of telemetry data at an edge platform. An example apparatus includes an orchestrator interface to, responsive to an amount of resources allocated to an orchestrator to orchestrate a workload at the edge platform meeting a first threshold, transmit telemetry data associated with the orchestrator to a computer to obtain a first orchestration result at a first granularity; a resource management controller to determine a second orchestration result at a second granularity to orchestrate the workload at the edge platform, the second granularity finer than the first granularity; and a scheduler to schedule a workload assigned to the edge platform based on the second orchestration result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Kshitij Doshi, Ned Smith, Thijs Metsch
  • Publication number: 20220244999
    Abstract: Technologies for hybrid field-programmable gate array (FPGA) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) code acceleration are described. In one example, the computing device includes a FPGA comprising: algorithm circuitry to: perform one or more algorithm tasks of an algorithm, wherein the algorithm to perform a service request that is offloaded to the FPGA; and determine a primitive task associated with an algorithm task of the one or more algorithm tasks; primitive offload circuitry to encapsulate the primitive task in a buffer of the FPGA, wherein the buffer is accessible by an ASIC of the computing device; and result circuitry to return one or more results of the service request responsive to performance of the primitive task by the ASIC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Changzheng Wei, Songwu Shen, Ziye Yang, Junyuan Wang, Weigang Li, Wenqian Yu
  • Publication number: 20220222274
    Abstract: Technologies for providing dynamic persistence of data in edge computing include a device including circuitry configured to determine multiple different logical domains of data storage resources for use in storing data from a client compute device at an edge of a network. Each logical domain has a different set of characteristics. The circuitry is also to configured to receive, from the client compute device, a request to persist data. The request includes a target persistence objective indicative of an objective to be satisfied in the storage of the data. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to select, as a function of the characteristics of the logical domains and the target persistence objective, a logical domain into which to persist the data and provide the data to the selected logical domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Karthik Kumar, Suraj Prabhakaran, Ramanathan Sethuraman, Timothy Verrall, Ned Smith
  • Publication number: 20220209971
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to aggregate telemetry data in an edge environment. An example apparatus includes at least one processor, and memory including instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to at least generate a composition for an edge service in the edge environment, the composition representative of a first interface to obtain the telemetry data, the telemetry data associated with resources of the edge service and including a performance metric, generate a resource object based on the performance metric, generate a telemetry object based on the performance metric, and generate a telemetry executable based on the composition, the composition including at least one of the resource object or the telemetry object, the telemetry executable to generate the telemetry data in response to the edge service executing a computing task distributed to the edge service based on the telemetry data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kshitij Doshi, Francesc Guim Bernat, Timothy Verrall, Ned Smith, Rajesh Gadiyar
  • Publication number: 20220206857
    Abstract: Technologies for providing dynamic selection of edge and local accelerator resources includes a device having circuitry to identify a function of an application to be accelerated, determine one or more properties of an accelerator resource available at the edge of a network where the device is located, and determine one or more properties of an accelerator resource available in the device. Additionally, the circuitry is to determine a set of acceleration selection factors associated with the function, wherein the acceleration factors are indicative of one or more objectives to be satisfied in the acceleration of the function. Further, the circuitry is to select, as a function of the one or more properties of the accelerator resource available at the edge, the one or more properties of the accelerator resource available in the device, and the acceleration selection factors, one or more of the accelerator resources to accelerate the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Karthik Kumar, Ned Smith, Thomas Willhalm, Timothy Verrall
  • Publication number: 20220182441
    Abstract: Technologies for determining a set of edge resources to offload a workload from a client compute device based on a brokering logic provided by a service provider include a device that includes circuitry that is in communication with edge resources. The circuitry is to receive a brokering logic from a service provider receive a request from a client compute device, wherein the request includes a function to be used to execute the request and one or more parameters associated with the client compute device, determine the one or more parameters, select, as a function of the one or more parameters and the brokering logic, a physical implementation to perform the function, wherein the physical implementation indicates a set of edge resources and a performance level for each edge resource of the set of edge resources, and perform, in response to a selection of the physical implementation, the request using the set of edge resources associated with the physical implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Ned Smith, Evan Custodio, Suraj Prabhkaran, Ignacio Astilleros Diez
  • Publication number: 20220166847
    Abstract: Technologies for fulfilling service requests in an edge architecture include an edge gateway device to receive a request from an edge device or an intermediate tier device of an edge network to perform a function of a service by an entity hosting the service. The edge gateway device is to identify one or more input data to fulfill the request by the service and request the one or more input data from an edge resource identified to provide the input data. The edge gateway device is to provide the input data to the entity associated with the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Karthik Kumar, Thomas Willhalm, Petar Torre, Ned Smith, Brinda Ganesh, Evan Custodio, Suraj Prabhakaran
  • Publication number: 20220158850
    Abstract: A system includes a host processor operable to communicate with a remote requestor to perform operations for attesting a trusted system. The system also includes a hardware acceleration coprocessor coupled to the host processor. The host processor is further operable to offload at least some of the operations onto the hardware acceleration coprocessor to free up processing power on the host processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Rajesh Poornachandran, Sundar Nadathur, Abdul M. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20220138156
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing a tiered elastic cloud storage to increase data resiliency are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Christian Maciocco, Kshitij Doshi, Francesc Guim Bernat, Ned Smith, Satish Jha, Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade, S M Iftekharul Alam
  • Publication number: 20220108266
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to coordinate and manage secure shipment of a package. An example shipment coordination apparatus includes an address generator and a verification engine. The example apparatus includes a shipping group coordinator to generate a group including a sender and a receiver based on a) a first digital address associated with the sender, b) a second digital address associated with the receiver, and c) at least one encryption key associated with the first digital address and/or the second digital address, the shipping group coordinator to initiate delivery instruction and manage receipt confirmation of a package at a second physical address corresponding to the second digital address based on verification of a token identifying the receiver and to provide messaging between the sender and the receiver in the group using a group encryption key to keep messages private in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Mats Agerstam, Vijay Sarathi Kesavan, Shilpa Sodani
  • Patent number: 11271994
    Abstract: Technologies for providing selective offload of execution of an application to the edge include a device that includes circuitry to determine whether a section of an application to be executed by the device is available to be offloaded. Additionally, the circuitry is to determine one or more characteristics of an edge resource available to execute the section. Further, the circuitry is to determine, as a function of the one or more characteristics and a target performance objective associated with the section, whether to offload the section to the edge resource and offload, in response to a determination to offload the section, the section to the edge resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Ned Smith, Thomas Willhalm, Karthik Kumar, Timothy Verrall
  • Patent number: 11265172
    Abstract: A system for supporting Enhanced Privacy Identification (EPID) is provided. The system may include a host processor operable to communicate with a remote requestor, where the host processor needs to perform signature revocation checking in accordance with EPID. To perform signature revocation checking, the host processor has to perform either a sign or verify operation. The host processor may offload the sign/verify operation onto one or more associated hardware acceleration coprocessors. A programmable coprocessor may be dynamically configured to perform the desired number of sign/verify functions in accordance with the requirements of the current workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Rajesh Poornachandran, Sundar Nadathur, Abdul M. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20220060322
    Abstract: Technologies for key management of internet-of-things (IoT) devices include an IoT device, an authority center server, and a group management server. The IoT device is configured to authenticate with an authority center server via an offline communication channel, receive a group member private key as a function of the authentication with the authority center server, and authenticate with a group management server via a secure online communication channel using the group member private key. The IoT device is further configured to receive a group shared key as a function of the authentication with the group management server, encrypt secret data with the group shared key, and transmit the encrypted secret data to the group management server. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Changzhen WEI, Junyuan WANG, Ned SMITH, Weigang LI, Ping YU
  • Publication number: 20220058045
    Abstract: Technologies for hybrid virtualization and secure enclave include a computing device and an edge orchestrator. The edge orchestrator securely provisions a container-enclave policy to the computing device. A VMM of the computing device constructs a platform services enclave that includes the container-enclave policy. The platform services enclave requests a local attestation report from an application enclave, and the application enclave generates the attestation report using secure enclave support of a compute engine of the computing device. The attestation report is indicative of a virtualization context of the application enclave, and may include a VM flag, a VMM flag, and a source address of the application enclave. The platform services enclave enforces the container-enclave policy based on the virtualization context of the application enclave. The platform services enclave may control access to functions of the computing device based on the virtualization context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Bing Zhu, Vincent Scarlata, Kapil Sood, Francesc Guim Bernat
  • Patent number: 11245538
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to aggregate telemetry data in an edge environment. An example apparatus includes at least one processor, and memory including instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to at least generate a composition for an edge service in the edge environment, the composition representative of a first interface to obtain the telemetry data, the telemetry data associated with resources of the edge service and including a performance metric, generate a resource object based on the performance metric, generate a telemetry object based on the performance metric, and generate a telemetry executable based on the composition, the composition including at least one of the resource object or the telemetry object, the telemetry executable to generate the telemetry data in response to the edge service executing a computing task distributed to the edge service based on the telemetry data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kshitij Doshi, Francesc Guim Bernat, Timothy Verrall, Ned Smith, Rajesh Gadiyar