Patents by Inventor Shanna Beck

Shanna Beck 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).

  • Interrupt context switching using dedicated processors
    Patent number: 10996990
    Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for performing Spectre mitigation on a workload. The method includes starting, by at least one processor of a plurality of processors, a process. The at least one processor determines that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor determines that an interrupt has occurred in response to the determination that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor processes the interrupt in response to determining that an interrupt has occurred. The at least one processor suppresses a malware mitigation to be applied to the kernel process in response to interrupt being processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sreenivas Makineedi, Douglas Griffith, Srinivasa Rao Muppala, Anil Kalavakolanu, Shanna Beck
  • INTERRUPT CONTEXT SWITCHING USING DEDICATED PROCESSORS
    Publication number: 20200159580
    Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for performing Spectre mitigation on a workload. The method includes starting, by at least one processor of a plurality of processors, a process. The at least one processor determines that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor determines that an interrupt has occurred in response to the determination that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor processes the interrupt in response to determining that an interrupt has occurred. The at least one processor suppresses a malware mitigation to be applied to the kernel process in response to interrupt being processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Sreenivas Makineedi, Douglas Griffith, Srinivasa Rao Muppala, Anil Kalavakolanu, Shanna Beck