Patents by Inventor Stephen F. Whalley

Stephen F. Whalley 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).

  • Providing hardware support for shared virtual memory between local and remote physical memory
    Patent number: 9003164
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) having entries to store virtual address to physical address translations, where each entry includes a location indicator to indicate whether a memory location for the corresponding entry is present in a local or remote memory. In this way, a common virtual memory space can be shared between the two memories, which may be separated by one or more non-coherent links. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gautham N. Chinya, Hong Wang, Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Jamison D. Collins, Ethan Schuchman, James P. Held, Ajay V. Bhatt, Prashant Sethi, Stephen F. Whalley
  • PROVIDING HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR SHARED VIRTUAL MEMORY BETWEEN LOCAL AND REMOTE PHYSICAL MEMORY
    Publication number: 20140208042
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) having entries to store virtual address to physical address translations, where each entry includes a location indicator to indicate whether a memory location for the corresponding entry is present in a local or remote memory. In this way, a common virtual memory space can be shared between the two memories, which may be separated by one or more non-coherent links. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Gautham N. Chinya, Hong Wang, Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Jamison D. Collins, Ethan Schuchman, James P. Held, Ajay V. Bhatt, Prashant Sethi, Stephen F. Whalley
  • Providing hardware support for shared virtual memory between local and remote physical memory
    Patent number: 8719547
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) having entries to store virtual address to physical address translations, where each entry includes a location indicator to indicate whether a memory location for the corresponding entry is present in a local or remote memory. In this way, a common virtual memory space can be shared between the two memories, which may be separated by one or more non-coherent links. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gautham N. Chinya, Hong Wang, Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Jamison D. Collins, Ethan Schuchman, James P. Held, Ajay V. Bhatt, Prashant Sethi, Stephen F. Whalley
  • Providing Hardware Support For Shared Virtual Memory Between Local And Remote Physical Memory
    Publication number: 20110072234
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) having entries to store virtual address to physical address translations, where each entry includes a location indicator to indicate whether a memory location for the corresponding entry is present in a local or remote memory. In this way, a common virtual memory space can be shared between the two memories, which may be separated by one or more non-coherent links. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Gautham N. Chinya, Hong Wang, Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Jamison D. Collins, Ethan Schuchman, James P. Held, Ajay V. Bhatt, Prashant Sethi, Stephen F. Whalley