Patents by Inventor Nicholas Hays
Nicholas Hays 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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Publication number: 20240089042Abstract: Data communication apparatus comprises a receiver comprising message receiver circuitry to receive payload messages and sender control messages from message sender circuitry, the message receiver circuitry comprising: communication circuitry to send receiver control messages to the message sender circuitry, the receiver control messages relating to actions by the message receiver circuitry in response to payload messages or sender control messages from the message sender circuitry; in which the communication circuitry is configured to selectively associate a respective indication with at least some of the receiver control messages sent to the message sender circuitry, the indication indicating whether a given receiver control message with which the indication is associated is a first receiver control message sent by the communication circuitry to the message sender circuitry after a reset of circuitry in the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Arm LimitedInventors: Haralds Capkevics, Timothy Nicholas Hay
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Patent number: 11593159Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus that includes processing circuitry for executing instructions relating to an active virtual processor in a plurality of virtual processors. Exception control circuitry receives an external exception associated with a target virtual processor in the plurality of virtual processors and when the target virtual processor is other than the active virtual processor, it issues a doorbell exception to cause a scheduling operation to schedule the target virtual processor to be the active virtual processor. Storage circuitry stores an indication of a set of masked virtual processors and the scheduling operation is adapted to disregard doorbell exceptions in respect of the set of masked virtual processors.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Martin Weidmann, Timothy Nicholas Hay, Marc Zyngier
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Patent number: 11579920Abstract: An apparatus comprises an interrupt distributor to distribute virtual interrupts to one or more physical processors, each virtual interrupt to be handled by one of a plurality of virtual processors mappable to said one or more physical processors; and control circuitry to maintain virtual processor interrupt tracking information corresponding to a given virtual processor. The virtual processor interrupt tracking information includes a pending interrupt record tracking which types of virtual interrupts are pending for the given virtual processor, and separate from the pending interrupt record, a pending interrupt status indication indicating a pending interrupt status for the given virtual processor. The pending interrupt status indicates whether the number of pending virtual interrupts for the given virtual processor is zero.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Timothy Nicholas Hay, Nathan William Whitaker, Haralds Capkevics
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Patent number: 11429426Abstract: An interrupt controller comprises issue circuitry to issue interrupt requests to a processing element and control circuitry to detect presence of a race condition in association with at least one pending interrupt request to be issued, and to set a barrier indicator when the race condition has been resolved. In response to the race condition being present, the issue circuitry is configured to select one of the at least one pending interrupt requests, to issue to the processing element the selected pending interrupt request followed by a dummy request over a path that ensures that the processing element receives the selected pending interrupt request prior to receiving the dummy request. On receiving an acknowledgement indicating that the processing element has received the dummy request, the control circuitry is then configured to set the barrier indicator.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Timothy Nicholas Hay, Martin Weidmann, Michael Alexander Kennedy, Andrew John Turner
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Patent number: 11327786Abstract: Virtual processors are mappable to a number of physical processors. An interrupt distributor is responsible for distributing interrupt requests to a subset of the physical processors. An interface communicates with further interrupt distributors responsible for other physical processors. In response to an interrupt request to be handled by a target virtual processor, the interrupt distributor determines, based on cached virtual processor mapping information, whether to route the interrupt request to one of the subset of physical processors or to one of the further interrupt distributors. When a rejection response is received in response to an interrupt request routed to one of the further interrupt distributors, an update of the cached virtual processing mapping information is requested based on shared virtual processor mapping information, and a resent interrupt request is sent to a further interrupt distributor determined based on the shared virtual processor mapping information.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Timothy Nicholas Hay, Haralds Capkevics
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Publication number: 20220027191Abstract: An apparatus comprises an interrupt distributor to distribute virtual interrupts to one or more physical processors, each virtual interrupt to be handled by one of a plurality of virtual processors mappable to said one or more physical processors; and control circuitry to maintain virtual processor interrupt tracking information corresponding to a given virtual processor. The virtual processor interrupt tracking information includes a pending interrupt record tracking which types of virtual interrupts are pending for the given virtual processor, and separate from the pending interrupt record, a pending interrupt status indication indicating a pending interrupt status for the given virtual processor. The pending interrupt status indicates whether the number of pending virtual interrupts for the given virtual processor is zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Timothy Nicholas HAY, Nathan William WHITAKER, Haralds CAPKEVICS
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Publication number: 20220027190Abstract: Virtual processors are mappable to a number of physical processors. An interrupt distributor is responsible for distributing interrupt requests to a subset of the physical processors. An interface communicates with further interrupt distributors responsible for other physical processors. In response to an interrupt request to be handled by a target virtual processor, the interrupt distributor determines, based on cached virtual processor mapping information, whether to route the interrupt request to one of the subset of physical processors or to one of the further interrupt distributors. When a rejection response is received in response to an interrupt request routed to one of the further interrupt distributors, an update of the cached virtual processing mapping information is requested based on shared virtual processor mapping information, and a resent interrupt request is sent to a further interrupt distributor determined based on the shared virtual processor mapping information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Timothy Nicholas HAY, Haralds CAPKEVICS
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Publication number: 20210271512Abstract: An interrupt controller comprises issue circuitry to issue interrupt requests to a processing element and control circuitry to detect presence of a race condition in association with at least one pending interrupt request to be issued, and to set a barrier indicator when the race condition has been resolved. In response to the race condition being present, the issue circuitry is configured to select one of the at least one pending interrupt requests, to issue to the processing element the selected pending interrupt request followed by a dummy request over a path that ensures that the processing element receives the selected pending interrupt request prior to receiving the dummy request. On receiving an acknowledgement indicating that the processing element has received the dummy request, the control circuitry is then configured to set the barrier indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Timothy Nicholas HAY, Martin WEIDMANN, Michael Alexander KENNEDY, Andrew John TURNER
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Publication number: 20210133727Abstract: One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computing system that includes at least one processor and at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations can include providing, for display in a user interface, data from an application and data that describes an electronic credential; receiving a user input that requests storing the electronic credential; and receiving via an application programming interface, data that describes the electronic credential.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Stephen John Ratcliffe, Nicholas A. Hays, Max Benjamin Christoff, Prakash Prem Hariramani
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Publication number: 20200409753Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus that includes processing circuitry for executing instructions relating to an active virtual processor in a plurality of virtual processors. Exception control circuitry receives an external exception associated with a target virtual processor in the plurality of virtual processors and when the target virtual processor is other than the active virtual processor, it issues a doorbell exception to cause a scheduling operation to schedule the target virtual processor to be the active virtual processor. Storage circuitry stores an indication of a set of masked virtual processors and the scheduling operation is adapted to disregard doorbell exceptions in respect of the set of masked virtual processors.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Martin WEIDMANN, Timothy Nicholas HAY, Marc ZYNGIER
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Publication number: 20200230813Abstract: A method for establishing sensorimotor programs includes specifying a concept relationship that relates a first concept to a second concept and establishes the second concept as higher-order than the first concept; training a first sensorimotor program to accomplish the first concept using a set of primitive actions; and training a second sensorimotor program to accomplish the second concept using the first sensorimotor program and the set of primitive actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: David Scott Phoenix, Michael Stark, Nicholas Hay
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Patent number: 10646996Abstract: A method for establishing sensorimotor programs includes specifying a concept relationship that relates a first concept to a second concept and establishes the second concept as higher-order than the first concept; training a first sensorimotor program to accomplish the first concept using a set of primitive actions; and training a second sensorimotor program to accomplish the second concept using the first sensorimotor program and the set of primitive actions.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Vicarious FPC, Inc.Inventors: David Scott Phoenix, Michael Stark, Nicholas Hay
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Patent number: 10545893Abstract: An interrupt controller, and method of operation of such an interrupt controller, are provided. The interrupt controller has an interrupt source interface for receiving interrupts from one or more interrupt sources, and a plurality of output interfaces, where each output interface is associated with a processing device that can execute an interrupt service routine to process an interrupt request issued to that processing device. The interrupt source interface has transaction generation circuitry to generate, for each received interrupt, an original transaction to represent the interrupt and a duplicate transaction to represent the interrupt. Buffer circuitry then buffers the original transaction and the duplicate transaction for each received interrupt, and selection circuitry is provided for selecting transactions from the buffer circuitry, and for routing each selected transaction for receipt by the output interface identified by an address portion of the selected transaction.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Zheng Xu, Abdul Ghani Kanawati, Timothy Nicholas Hay
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Publication number: 20190392420Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for location-aware event monitoring. In an embodiment, a computing platform receives an indication of an event. The location of a mobile computing device associated with the event is determined. Additional information about the event may then be retrieved based on the location of the event and the location of the mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the location of more than one mobile computing device may be determined and used to associate the event with one of the mobile computing devices. In some embodiments, the distance between the location of the mobile computing device and the location of the event is used to determine further information about the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Anand Atreya, Nicholas Hays
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Patent number: 8935592Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting errors in data accessed from a memory device. A plurality of read symbols are read from a memory device. Syndrome information is then determined from the n data symbols and associated m error correction code symbols. Error correction circuitry uses the syndrome information in order to attempt to locate each read symbol containing an error and to correct the errors in each of those located read symbols. Error tracking circuitry tracks which memory regions the located read symbols containing an error originate from, and, on detecting an error threshold condition, sets at least one memory region as an erasure memory region. The correction circuitry treats each read symbol as a located read symbol containing an error, such that the read symbols to be located are not all randomly distributed and more than PMAX read symbols containing errors can be corrected.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: ARM LimitedInventors: Michael Andrew Campbell, Timothy Nicholas Hay
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Patent number: 8898430Abstract: A data processing apparatus having a memory configured to store tables having virtual to physical address translations, a cache configured to store a subset of the virtual to physical address translations and cache management circuitry configured to control transactions received from the processor requesting virtual address to physical address translations. The data processing apparatus identifies where a faulting transaction has occurred during execution of a context and whether the faulting transaction has a transaction stall or transaction terminate fault. The cache management circuitry is responsive to identification of the faulting transaction having a transaction terminate fault to invalidate all address translations in the cache that relate to the context of the faulting transaction such that a valid bit associated with each entry in the cache is set to invalid for the address translations.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: ARM LimitedInventors: Viswanath Chakrala, Timothy Nicholas Hay, Stuart David Biles
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Publication number: 20140156949Abstract: A data processing apparatus having a memory configured to store tables having virtual to physical address translations, a cache configured to store a subset of the virtual to physical address translations and cache management circuitry configured to control transactions received from the processor requesting virtual address to physical address translations. The data processing apparatus identifies where a faulting transaction has occurred during execution of a context and whether the faulting transaction has a transaction stall or transaction terminate fault. The cache management circuitry is responsive to identification of the faulting transaction having a transaction terminate fault to invalidate all address translations in the cache that relate to the context of the faulting transaction such that a valid bit associated with each entry in the cache is set to invalid for the address translations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventors: Viswanath CHAKRALA, Timothy Nicholas Hay, Stuart David Biles
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Publication number: 20140143633Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting errors in data accessed from a memory device. A plurality of read symbols are read from a memory device. Syndrome information is then determined from the n data symbols and associated m error correction code symbols. Error correction circuitry uses the syndrome information in order to attempt to locate each read symbol containing an error and to correct the errors in each of those located read symbols. Error tracking circuitry tracks which memory regions the located read symbols containing an error originate from, and, on detecting an error threshold condition, sets at least one memory region as an erasure memory region. The correction circuitry treats each read symbol as a located read symbol containing an error, such that the read symbols to be located are not all randomly distributed and more than PMAX read symbols containing errors can be corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: ARM LIMITEDInventors: Michael Andrew CAMPBELL, Timothy Nicholas HAY
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Patent number: 8663073Abstract: A portable punching bag apparatus including a support plate sized in width to fit, when horizontally oriented, within a doorway. A punching bag is supported from a central area of the lower surface of the support plate. A doorway contact bar is also connected to the support plate and extends beyond the side margins and the sides of the doorway. A door molding engaging bar is connected to the support plate parallel to the contact bar and positioned above the support plate such that the apparatus is supported on the top molding when the engaging bar is resting atop an upper edge of the top molding. A clamp support connected to the support plate supports an elongated clamp rod for tightening a distal end thereof against the wall above a top of the doorway whereby the apparatus is removably securable for use beneath the top of the doorway.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Inventor: Nicholas A. Hays
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Publication number: 20130046605Abstract: A computer-implemented method enables consumers to purchase products or services from merchants using consumer loyalty programs. The method is implemented in a computer system communicating with client devices operated by consumers and merchants. The method features: (a) transmitting a deal to client devices operated by consumers, the deal enabling consumers to purchase a given product or service from one of a set of one or more merchants; (b) receiving from a client device operated by a consumer a deal purchase including consumer payment information for the given product or service; (c) associating the deal purchase with an identifier of a loyalty program account of the consumer in one or more loyalty programs of the set of one or more merchants; and (d) notifying at least one of the set of one or more merchants of the deal purchase such that the consumer can be credited for the deal purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: INCENTIVE TARGETING, INC.Inventors: Matthew Baron, Charles Grindel, Nicholas Hays, Joshua Herzig-Marx, Margaret Le, Benjamin Sprecher