Patents by Inventor Scott Willenborg

Scott Willenborg 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: 11740901
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for centralized control of execution of a quantum program. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a synchronization component that causes multiple controller devices remotely located relative to the system to be synchronized with one another and the system. The computer-executable components also include an ingestion component that accesses measurement data resulting from one or more measurements at respective qubit devices. The computer-executable components further include a composition component that generates, using the measurement data, one or more control messages for respective second controller devices of the multiple controller devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Willenborg, Andrew Wack, Thomas Alexander, Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger, Blake Johnson, Juergen Saalmueller, Kent H. Haselhorst
  • Publication number: 20220398099
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for centralized control of execution of a quantum program. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a synchronization component that causes multiple controller devices remotely located relative to the system to be synchronized with one another and the system. The computer-executable components also include an ingestion component that accesses measurement data resulting from one or more measurements at respective qubit devices. The computer-executable components further include a composition component that generates, using the measurement data, one or more control messages for respective second controller devices of the multiple controller devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Scott Willenborg, Andrew Wack, Thomas Alexander, Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger, Blake Johnson, Juergen Saalmueller, Kent H. Haselhorst
  • Publication number: 20080072114
    Abstract: A method and apparatus tracks packets and reliably transmits data over a computer transmission system with a reduced amount of memory needed in the transmission interface. The invention eliminates the need to keep all the packets of data queued until the acknowledge message for that data has arrived. Instead, it keeps track of how many packets have been sent and which packets correspond to the end of a message, marking them off when acknowledge messages are received. If packets are lost, the invention determines which packet were lost, backs up to the lost packet, re-fetches the data and resends it. Embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need to queue packets, reducing silicon size and allowing the available bandwidth of the output bus to be more fully utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald Fuhs, Steven Rogers, Nathaniel Sellin, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20070223389
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a first method of transmitting a data packet is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) for each connection from which a data packet may be transmitted, storing header data corresponding to the connection; (2) employing a user application to form header and payload data of a packet, wherein the user application is associated with a connection from which the packet is to be transmitted; and (3) while transmitting the packet, comparing one or more portions of the packet header data with the header data corresponding to the connection with which the user application is associated. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Ronald Fuhs, Nathaniel Sellin, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20070204195
    Abstract: A method and apparatus tracks packets and reliably transmits data over a computer transmission system with a reduced amount of memory needed in the transmission interface. The invention eliminates the need to keep all the packets of data queued until the acknowledge message for that data has arrived. Instead, it keeps track of how many packets have been sent and which packets correspond to the end of a message, marking them off when acknowledge messages are received. If packets are lost, the invention determines which packet were lost, backs up to the lost packet, re-fetches the data and resends it. Embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need to queue packets, reducing silicon size and allowing the available bandwidth of the output bus to be more fully utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald Fuhs, Steven Rogers, Nathaniel Sellin, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060251120
    Abstract: An Ethernet adapter is disclosed. The Ethernet adapter comprises a plurality of layers for allowing the adapter to receive and transmit packets from and to a processor. The plurality of layers include a demultiplexing mechanism to allow for partitioning of the processor. A Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) is an integrated Ethernet adapter providing a new approach to Ethernet and TCP acceleration. A set of TCP/IP acceleration features have been introduced in a toolkit approach: Servers TCP/IP stacks use these accelerators when and as required. The interface between the server and the network interface controller has been streamlined by bypassing the PCI bus. The HEA supports network virtualization. The HEA can be shared by multiple OSs providing the essential isolation and protection without affecting its performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Ravi Arimilli, Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Chih-Jen Chang, Philippe Damon, Ronald Fuhs, Satya Sharma, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Fabrice Verplanken, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060248238
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in various embodiments determine whether to execute a command in a queue or whether to wait until another command or commands completed. The determination is based on a combination of an in-use vector and a scorecard vector. The in-use vector indicates which slots in various queues contain commands. The scorecard vector indicates the dependencies between various queues. In this way, the scorecard vector, and the thus the queue dependencies can be set and modified after the logic that processes the commands has been designed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Clark, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060221961
    Abstract: Providing communications between operating system partitions and a computer network. In one aspect, an apparatus for distributing network communications among multiple operating system partitions includes a physical port allowing communications between the network and the computer system, and logical ports associated with the physical port, where each logical port is associated with one of the operating system partitions. Each of the logical ports enables communication between a physical port and the associated operating system partition and allows configurability of network resources of the system. Other aspects include a logical switch for logical and physical ports, and packet queues for each connection and for each logical port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Chih-Jen Chang, Philippe Damon, Ronald Fuhs, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Fabrice Verplanken, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060221953
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing a checksum in a network transmission. In one aspect of the invention, a checksum for a packet to be transmitted on a network is determined by retrieving packet information from a storage device, the packet information to be included in the packet to be transmitted. A blind checksum value is determined based on the retrieved packet information, and the blind checksum value is adjusted to a protocol checksum based on descriptor information describing the structure of the packet. The protocol checksum is inserted in the packet before the packet is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Chih-Jen Chang, Philippe Damon, Ronald Fuhs, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Fabrice Verplanken, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060221966
    Abstract: A method and system for performing a lookup for a packet in a computer network are disclosed. The packet includes a header. The method and system include providing a parser, providing a lookup engine coupled with the parser, and providing a processor coupled with the lookup engine. The parser is for parsing the packet for the header prior to receipt of the packet being completed. The lookup engine performs a lookup for the header and returns a resultant. In one aspect, the lookup includes performing a local lookup of a cache that includes resultants of previous lookups. The processor processes the resultant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Chih-jen Chang, Philippe Damon, Ronald Fuhs, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Fabrice Verplanken, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060221969
    Abstract: A system and method for computing a blind checksum includes a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) with a system for receiving a packet. The system determines whether or not the packet is in Internet protocol version four (IPv4). If the packet is not in IPv4, the system computes the checksum of the packet. If the packet is in IPv4, the system determines whether the packet is in transmission control protocol (TCP) or user datagram protocol (UDP). If the packet is not in either of TCP or UDP the system attaches a pseudo-header to the packet and computes the checksum of the packet based on the pseudo-header and the IPv4 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Jean Calvignac, Chih-jen Chang, Philippe Damon, Ronald Fuhs, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Fabrice Verplanken, Colin Verrilli, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060136677
    Abstract: Concurrent read access and exclusive write access are provided in a shared memory architecture to permit one or more devices in the shared memory architecture to maintain read access to a block of memory such as a cache line while one device has exclusive permission to modify that block of memory. By doing so, a device that has permission to modify may make updates to its copy of the block of memory without invalidating other copies of the block of memory, and potentially enabling other devices to continue to read data from their respective copies of the block of memory without having to retrieve the updated copy of the block of memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Fuhs, Ryan Haraden, Nathaniel Sellin, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060126638
    Abstract: A method for coalescing acknowledge packets within a server is disclosed. A Read Request queue having multiple queue pair entries is provided. Each of the queue pair entries includes a packet sequence number (PSN) field and an indicator field. In response to a receipt of a Write Request packet, an indicator field of a queue pair entry is set to indicate that an Ack packet has been queued within the queue pair entry, and a PSN of the Write Request packet is written into a PSN field of the queue pair entry. In addition, a Queue Write Pointer is maintained to point to the queue pair entry. In response to a receipt of a Read Request packet, the indicator field of the queue pair entry is set to indicate that a Read Request packet has been queued within the queue pair entry, and a PSN of the Read Request packet is written into the PSN field of the queue pair entry. Also, the Queue Write Pointer is advanced to point to a queue pair entry that is subsequent to the queue pair entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Fuhs, Calvin Paynton, Steven Rogers, Nathaniel Sellin, Scott Willenborg
  • Publication number: 20060064621
    Abstract: A method and apparatus tracks packets and reliably transmits data over a computer transmission system with a reduced amount of memory needed in the transmission interface. The invention eliminates the need to keep all the packets of data queued until the acknowledge message for that data has arrived. Instead, it keeps track of how many packets have been sent and which packets correspond to the end of a message, marking them off when acknowledge messages are received. If packets are lost, the invention determines which packet were lost, backs up to the lost packet, re-fetches the data and resends it. Embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need to queue packets, reducing silicon size and allowing the available bandwidth of the output bus to be more fully utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald Fuhs, Steven Rogers, Nathaniel Sellin, Scott Willenborg