Patents by Inventor Shiow-wen Cheng

Shiow-wen Cheng 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: 9952999
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage cache memory in multi-cache environments. A disclosed apparatus includes a remote cache manager to identify a remote cache memory communicatively connected to a bus, a delegation manager to constrain the remote cache memory to share data with a host cache memory via the bus, and a lock manager to synchronize the host cache memory and the remote cache memory with a common lock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shiow-Wen Cheng, Robert Joseph Woodruff
  • Patent number: 9560117
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a low-latency mechanism for performing a checkpoint on a distributed application. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention includes processing a first application on a compute node, which is included in a cluster, to produce first computed data and then storing the first computed data in volatile memory included locally in the compute node; halting the processing of the first application, based on an initiated checkpoint, and storing first state data corresponding to the halted first application in the volatile memory; storing the first state information and the first computed data in non-volatile memory included locally in the compute node; and resuming processing of the halted first application and then continuing the processing the first application to produce second computed data while simultaneously pulling the first state information and the first computed data from the non-volatile memory to an input/output (IO) node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Hefty, Arlin Davis, Robert Woodruff, Sayantan Sur, Shiow-wen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150081945
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage cache memory in multi-cache environments. A disclosed apparatus includes a remote cache manager to identify a remote cache memory communicatively connected to a bus, a delegation manager to constrain the remote cache memory to share data with a host cache memory via the bus, and a lock manager to synchronize the host cache memory and the remote cache memory with a common lock state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Shiow-Wen Cheng, Robert Joseph Woodruff
  • Publication number: 20140129635
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a low-latency mechanism for performing a checkpoint on a distributed application. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention includes processing a first application on a compute node, which is included in a cluster, to produce first computed data and then storing the first computed data in volatile memory included locally in the compute node; halting the processing of the first application, based on an initiated checkpoint, and storing first state data corresponding to the halted first application in the volatile memory; storing the first state information and the first computed data in non-volatile memory included locally in the compute node; and resuming processing of the halted first application and then continuing the processing the first application to produce second computed data while simultaneously pulling the first state information and the first computed data from the non-volatile memory to an input/output (IO) node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Mark S. Hefty, Arlin Davis, Robert Woodruff, Sayantan Sur, Shiow-wen Cheng