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).

  • Publication number: 20240134811
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20240070794
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11863406
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
  • Patent number: 11860810
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11729300
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Timothy David Gasser, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Vithal Dattatraya Shirodkar
  • Publication number: 20230139380
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230018032
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11474966
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11316733
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Asif Khan, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta
  • Patent number: 11275503
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20210399958
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
  • Patent number: 11182320
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11115293
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Matthew Shawn Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210182230
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20210160350
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Timothy David Gasser, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Vithal Dattatraya Shirodkar
  • Patent number: 10963414
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Islam Atta, Christopher Joseph Pettey, Asif Khan, Robert Michael Johnson, Mark Bradley Davis, Erez Izenberg, Nafea Bshara, Kypros Constantinides
  • Patent number: 10963268
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Johnson, Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Asif Khan, Nafea Bshara, Anthony Nicholas Liguori
  • Patent number: 10963001
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Islam Mohamed Hatem Abdulfattah Mohamed Atta, Robert Michael Johnson, Nafea Bshara, Asif Khan
  • Patent number: 10915486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Asif Khan, Thomas A. Volpe, Marc John Brooker, Marc Stephen Olson, Norbert Paul Kusters, Mark Bradley Davis, Robert Michael Johnson
  • Patent number: 10911292
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nafea Bshara, Robert Michael Johnson, Asif Khan, Stanislav Spassov, Christopher Joseph Pettey