Patents by Inventor Shammanna M. Datta

Shammanna M. Datta 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).

  • Enabling storage of active state in internal storage of processor rather than in SMRAM upon entry to system management mode
    Patent number: 8578138
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor that has an on-die storage such as a static random access memory to store an architectural state of one or more threads that are swapped out of architectural state storage of the processor on entry to a system management mode (SMM). In this way communication of this state information to a system management memory can be avoided, reducing latency associated with entry into SMM. Embodiments may also enable the processor to update a status of executing agents that are either in a long instruction flow or in a system management interrupt (SMI) blocked state, in order to provide an indication to agents inside the SMM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mahesh S. Natu, Thanunathan Rangarajan, Gautam B. Doshi, Shammanna M. Datta, Baskaran Ganesan, Mohan J. Kumar, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Frank Binns, Rajesh Nagaraja Murthy, Robert C. Swanson
  • Providing State Storage In A Processor For System Management Mode
    Publication number: 20110055469
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor that has an on-die storage such as a static random access memory to store an architectural state of one or more threads that are swapped out of architectural state storage of the processor on entry to a system management mode (SMM). In this way communication of this state information to a system management memory can be avoided, reducing latency associated with entry into SMM. Embodiments may also enable the processor to update a status of executing agents that are either in a long instruction flow or in a system management interrupt (SMI) blocked state, in order to provide an indication to agents inside the SMM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Mahesh S. Natu, Thanunathan Rangarajan, Gautam B. Doshi, Shammanna M. Datta, Baskaran Ganesan, Mohan J. Kumar, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Frank Binns, Rajesh Nagaraja Murthy, Robert C. Swanson