Patents by Inventor Paul Crutcher

Paul Crutcher 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: 12373370
    Abstract: Buses such as USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 buses may allow for device combinations that actually cannot be accommodated on the bus. A monitoring component, e.g., software and/or hardware component, such as an Operating System (OS) policy manager, may monitor a bus for events identifying changes to devices on the bus. The monitoring component may influence mode changes to hardware/software, such as to the USB configuration, device driver settings, attached device settings, and/or settings for devices attaching to the bus. Influenced changes facilitate accommodating changes to the devices attached to the bus. For example, if a display is attached and it would exceed available bus bandwidth, cause an excess system load, or cause some other problem, rather than fail to enumerate the display, instead hardware and/or software associated with the bus may be influenced to result in a resolution reduction for the display to accommodate it attaching to the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajaram Regupathy, Saranya Gopal, Khaled Almahallawy, Gaurav Singh, Abhilash K V, Reuven Rozic, Paul Crutcher
  • Publication number: 20250053436
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprises: a processor to execute a native operating system (OS); and an interface circuit coupled to the processor, the interface circuit configured to tunnel communications of a plurality of tunneled protocols, the interface circuit to couple to at least one device via a first tunneled protocol, where a connection manager for the interface circuit is to execute in a user space of the native OS. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Rajaram Regupathy, Reuven Rozic, Xiong Zhang, Gil Fine, Dmitriy Berchanskiy, Nirmala Bailur, Paul Crutcher
  • Publication number: 20230096774
    Abstract: Buses such as USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 buses may allow for device combinations that actually cannot be accommodated on the bus. A monitoring component, e.g., software and/or hardware component, such as an Operating System (OS) policy manager, may monitor a bus for events identifying changes to devices on the bus. The monitoring component may influence mode changes to hardware/software, such as to the USB configuration, device driver settings, attached device settings, and/or settings for devices attaching to the bus. Influenced changes facilitate accommodating changes to the devices attached to the bus. For example, if a display is attached and it would exceed available bus bandwidth, cause an excess system load, or cause some other problem, rather than fail to enumerate the display, instead hardware and/or software associated with the bus may be influenced to result in a resolution reduction for the display to accommodate it attaching to the bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Rajaram Regupathy, Saranya Gopal, Khaled Almahallawy, Gaurav Singh, Abhilash K V, Reuven Rozic, Paul Crutcher
  • Patent number: 10545869
    Abstract: A power button override allows a persistent memory enabled platform to preserve data in persistent memory before initiating shutdown in a manner that is transparent to the user. The power button override prevents shutdown until all of the volatile cache and any other data in the platform has been flushed to persistent memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pronay Dutta, Christopher Lake, Patrick James, Paul Crutcher
  • Publication number: 20190042418
    Abstract: A power button override allows a persistent memory enabled platform to preserve data in persistent memory before initiating shutdown in a manner that is transparent to the user. The power button override prevents shutdown until all of the volatile cache and any other data in the platform has been flushed to persistent memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Pronay DUTTA, Christopher LAKE, Patrick JAMES, Paul CRUTCHER
  • Publication number: 20060095551
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for a service processor architecture. The service processor provides an extensible execution environment for a platform (or other device) that is accessible when the host system is non-functional. In an embodiment, the service processor has one or more platform-independent external interfaces to provide a communications link between the service processor and one or more management resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: John Leung, David Durham, Raj Yavatkar, Milan Milenkovic, Mark Doran, Greg Gans, Paul Crutcher