Patents by Inventor Neil MacAvoy
Neil MacAvoy 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).
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Patent number: 7191433Abstract: The present application describes a compiler of a network packet classification programming language that generates code for processors such as an application processor and a processing engine. The programming language includes a variety of instructions including an instruction to declare a network protocol and an instruction to specify a rule and at least one action to perform if the rule applies. A processor executing instructions generated by the compiler assigns values based on instructions to declare a network protocol and applies the rule instructions to received packets. The programming language may also include other instructions such as an instruction to search a set of values and identify whether an encapsulated packet header is present in a packet.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 7171486Abstract: Described herein are techniques to perform reassembly of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data stream from payloads of TCP segments of a bidirectional TCP connection between a first TCP end-point operating at a first network device and a second TCP end-point operating at a second network device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Intel CorpoartionInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6859841Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Publication number: 20040148382Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Publication number: 20040143655Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6701338Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6625689Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Publication number: 20030061332Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Publication number: 20030046423Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Inventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Publication number: 20030005103Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6421730Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6401117Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 6157955Abstract: The present invention relates to a general-purpose programmable packet-processing platform for accelerating network infrastructure applications which have been structured so as to separate the stages of classification and action. Network packet classification, execution of actions upon those packets, management of buffer flow, encryption services, and management of Network Interface Controllers are accelerated through the use of a multiplicity of specialized modules. A language interface is defined for specifying both stateless and stateful classification of packets and to associate actions with classification results in order to efficiently utilize these specialized modules.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1998Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles E. Narad, Kevin Fall, Neil MacAvoy, Pradip Shankar, Leonard M. Rand, Jerry J. Hall
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Patent number: 5572734Abstract: A master bus interconnecting multiple masters is coupled via any number of intervening buses to a slave bus interconnecting multiple slaves and masters. A lock arbiter signal is passed to each successive bus-to-bus interface concurrent with an instruction issued by a master accessing a slave on a remote bus. Address, control, data, and lock arbiter signals are buffered in successive intervening bus-to-bus interfaces including the bus-to-bus interface to the slave bus. The lock arbiter signal when received by the slave bus-to-bus interface will set a lock arbiter register within bus slave bus-to-bus interface. Setting the lock arbiter register once a target slave has been accessed prevents any other master operating on the remote bus from using the remote bus or connecting to the remote bus-to-bus interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Charles E. Narad, Neil MacAvoy