Patents by Inventor Robert Michael Johnson
Robert Michael Johnson 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: 20240134811Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Publication number: 20240070794Abstract: A document management system uses machine learning to identify legal obligations within contract documents. The document management system trains a machine-learned model using historical contract documents having historical legal obligations; the trained machine-learned model is configured to identify portions of text within a contract document that correspond to legal obligations. The machine-learned model, applied to a set of contract documents, identifies a set of legal obligations. The document management system presents, via a user interface, information about the set of identified legal obligations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Thierry Bonfante, Robert Michael Johnson, Staci Leigh Black, Joyce Liang, Venkata Suresh Kumar Araveeti, Pratik Vinay Hatkar, Radhika Kotangoor, Sandesh Meda, Haitao Song, Gor Vardanyan
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Patent number: 11863406Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network service providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) services includes a network service provider configured to receive a request to implement application logic in a plurality of FPGAs, allocate a computing instance comprising the FPGAs in responses to receiving the request, produce configuration information for programming the FPGAs, and send the configuration information to an allocated computing instance. The system further includes a computing host that is allocated by the network service provider as a computing instance which includes memory, processors configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, and the programmed FPGAs.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
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Patent number: 11860810Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Patent number: 11729300Abstract: Programmatically defined fields of metadata for a network packet may be generated. Instructions indicating different portions of data from different headers of a network packet may be stored at a packet processor. When a network packet is received, the different portions of the data may be extracted from the different headers of the packet according to the instructions and provided to other stages of the packet processor for processing. Different portions of the same programmatically defined field may be utilized at different stages in the packet processor. The programmatically defined field may be used to generate a hash value that selects an entry in a lookup table describing a forwarding decision for a network packet.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Timothy David Gasser, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Vithal Dattatraya Shirodkar
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Publication number: 20230139380Abstract: A document management system can include an artificial intelligence-based document manager that can perform one or more predictive operations based on characteristics of a user, a document, a user account, or historical document activity. For instance, the document management system can apply a machine-learning model to determine how long an expiring agreement document is likely to take to renegotiate and can prompt a user to begin the renegotiation process in advance. The document management system can detect a change to language in a particular clause type and can prompt a user to update other documents that include the clause type to include the change. The document management system can determine a type of a document being worked on and can identify one or more actions that a corresponding user may want to take using a machine-learning model trained on similar documents and similar users.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Christina Silva Hamlin, David Minoru Hirotsu, Saul Adams Aguilar, Dia A. Abulzahab, Mangesh Prabhakar Bhandarkar, Isaac John Steiner, Michael Wayne Fountain, William Gerard Wetherell, Iqra Anjum, Celine Beck, Robert Michael Johnson, Yiting Zheng, Thierry Bonfante, Madhubala Rawat, Samuel J. Cicero
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Publication number: 20230018032Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Patent number: 11474966Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Patent number: 11316733Abstract: Disclosed are techniques regarding aspects of implementing client configurable logic within a computer system. The computer system can be a cloud infrastructure. The techniques can include associating signature information with the client configurable logic for various purposes.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Asif Khan, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta
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Patent number: 11275503Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for securely erasing partitions of reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a multi-tenant server environment. In one example, a method of securely erasing an FPGA includes identifying one partition of previously-programmed resources in the FPGA, erasing the identified partition by storing new values in memory or storage elements of the identified partition, and storing new values in memory or storage elements of additional external resources electrically connected to the integrated circuit and associated with the identified partition. Thus, other partitions and subsequent users of the identified partition are prevented from accessing the securely erased data. A configuration circuit, accessible by a host computer via DMA, can be programmed into the FPGA reconfigurable logic for performing the disclosed erasing operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Robert Michael Johnson, Asif Khan, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Nafea Bshara, Christopher Joseph Pettey
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Publication number: 20210399958Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network service providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) services includes a network service provider configured to receive a request to implement application logic in a plurality of FPGAs, allocate a computing instance comprising the FPGAs in responses to receiving the request, produce configuration information for programming the FPGAs, and send the configuration information to an allocated computing instance. The system further includes a computing host that is allocated by the network service provider as a computing instance which includes memory, processors configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, and the programmed FPGAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
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Patent number: 11182320Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a plurality of reconfigurable logic regions. Each reconfigurable region can include hardware that is configurable to implement an application logic design. The host logic can be used for separately encapsulating each of the reconfigurable logic regions. The host logic can include a plurality of data path functions where each data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between a host interface and the application logic of a corresponding reconfigurable logic region. The host interface can be configured to apportion bandwidth of the data transfers generated by the application logic of the respective reconfigurable logic regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Asif Khan, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Nafea Bshara, Erez Izenberg
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Patent number: 11115293Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network service providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) services includes a network service provider configured to receive a request to implement application logic in a plurality of FPGAs, allocate a computing instance comprising the FPGAs in responses to receiving the request, produce configuration information for programming the FPGAs, and send the configuration information to an allocated computing instance. The system further includes a computing host that is allocated by the network service provider as a computing instance which includes memory, processors configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, and the programmed FPGAs.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
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Publication number: 20210182230Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Publication number: 20210160350Abstract: Programmatically defined fields of metadata for a network packet may be generated. Instructions indicating different portions of data from different headers of a network packet may be stored at a packet processor. When a network packet is received, the different portions of the data may be extracted from the different headers of the packet according to the instructions and provided to other stages of the packet processor for processing. Different portions of the same programmatically defined field may be utilized at different stages in the packet processor. The programmatically defined field may be used to generate a hash value that selects an entry in a lookup table describing a forwarding decision for a network packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Timothy David Gasser, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Vithal Dattatraya Shirodkar
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Patent number: 10963414Abstract: The following description is directed to a configurable logic platform. In one example, a configurable logic platform includes host logic and a reconfigurable logic region. The reconfigurable logic region can include logic blocks that are configurable to implement application logic. The host logic can be used for encapsulating the reconfigurable logic region. The host logic can include a host interface for communicating with a processor. The host logic can include a management function accessible via the host interface. The management function can be adapted to cause the reconfigurable logic region to be configured with the application logic in response to an authorized request from the host interface. The host logic can include a data path function accessible via the host interface. The data path function can include a layer for formatting data transfers between the host interface and the application logic.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
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Patent number: 10963268Abstract: Disclosed are techniques regarding aspects of implementing client configurable logic within a computer system. The computer system can be a cloud infrastructure. The techniques can include providing an identifier in response to configuring client configurable logic within the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Asif Khan, Nafea Bshara, Anthony Nicholas Liguori
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Patent number: 10963001Abstract: Disclosed are techniques regarding aspects of implementing client configurable logic within a computer system. The computer system can be a cloud infrastructure. The techniques can include associating clock information with the client configurable logic for various purposes.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Asif Khan
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Patent number: 10915486Abstract: Server computers often include one or more input/output (I/O) devices for communicating with a network or directly attached storage device. The data transfer latency for request can be reduced by utilizing ingress data placement logic to bypass the processor of the I/O device. For example, host memory descriptors can be stored in a memory of the I/O device to facilitate placement of the requested data.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Asif Khan, Thomas A. Volpe, Marc John Brooker, Marc Stephen Olson, Norbert Paul Kusters, Mark Bradley Davis, Robert Michael Johnson
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Patent number: 10911292Abstract: Access control is provided for peer-to-peer communication between a source peripheral device and a destination peripheral device without going through a host device. The access control mechanism can allow or block a request for a transaction to go out via a port of the source peripheral device to the destination peripheral device by comparing an attribute associated with the transaction with a filter attribute stored in memory. Embodiments of the disclosed technologies can allow programming of different filter attributes for different tenants in a multi-tenant environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nafea Bshara, Robert Michael Johnson, Asif Khan, Stanislav Spassov, Christopher Joseph Pettey