Patents by Inventor Thomas Toll

Thomas Toll 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).

  • Publication number: 20230085994
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to logical resource partitioning via realm isolation are described. In an embodiment, a logic processor, to be assigned to one of a plurality of processor cores of a processor, executes one or more operations for at least one of a plurality of logical realms; The plurality of logical realms include a security monitor realm and the security monitor realm includes security monitor logic to maintain a Realm Identifier (RID) for each of the plurality of logical realms. The security monitor logic controls access to each of the plurality of realms based at least in part on the RID for each of the plurality of logical realms. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ramya Jayaram Masti, Thomas Toll, Barry Huntley
  • Publication number: 20220308791
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a memory and a scheduler. The scheduler is coupled to the memory and a memory controller. The memory stores a plurality of metadata requests. Each of the plurality of metadata requests is associated with one of a plurality of metadata priority levels. The scheduler schedules transmission of a first metadata request of the plurality of metadata requests to the memory controller based at least in part on a first metadata priority level associated with the first metadata request and a first bandwidth portion of a metadata request bandwidth. The first bandwidth portion is associated with the first metadata priority level. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: RAMYA JAYARAM MASTI, THOMAS TOLL, ADRIAN C. MOGA, VINCENT VON BOKERN
  • Publication number: 20220206951
    Abstract: A method is described. The method includes executing a memory access instruction for a software process or thread. The method includes creating a memory access request for the memory access instruction having a physical memory address and a first identifier of a realm that the software process or thread execute from. The method includes receiving the memory access request and determining a second identifier of a realm from the physical memory address. The method also includes servicing the memory access request because the first identifier matches the second identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas TOLL, Ramya JAYARAM MASTI, Barry E. HUNTLEY, Vincent VON BOKERN, Siddhartha CHHABRA, Hormuzd M. KHOSRAVI, Vedvyas SHANBHOGUE, Gideon GERZON
  • Publication number: 20220100871
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for scalable multi-key memory encryption are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a core, an encryption unit, and key identification hardware. The core is to write data to and read data from memory regions, each to be identified by a corresponding address. The encryption unit to encrypt data to be written and decrypt data to be read. The key identification hardware is to use a portion of the corresponding address to look up a corresponding key identifier in a key information data structure. The corresponding key identifier is one multiple key identifiers. The corresponding key identifier is to identify which one of multiple encryption keys is to be used to encrypt and decrypt the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barry E. Huntley, Hormuzd M. Khosravi, Thomas Toll, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Siddhartha Chhabra, Vincent Von Bokern
  • Patent number: 10331452
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for tracking the mode of processing devices in an instruction tracing system. The method may include receiving an indication of a change in a current execution mode of the processing device. The method may also include determining that the current execution mode of the received indication is different than a value of an execution mode of a first execution mode (EM) packet previously-generated by the IT module. The method may also include generating, based on the determining that the current execution mode is different, a second EM packet that provides a value of the current execution mode of the processing device to indicate the change in the execution mode for an instruction in a trace generated by the IT module. The method may further include generating transactional memory (TMX) packets having n bit mode pattern in the packet log. The n is at least two and the n bit mode indicates transaction status of the TMX operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thilo Schmitt, Peter Lachner, Beeman Strong, Ofer Levy, Thomas Toll, Matthew Merten, Tong Li, Ravi Rajwar, Konrad Lai
  • Publication number: 20150006717
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for tracking the mode of processing devices in an instruction tracing system. The method may include receiving an indication of a change in a current execution mode of the processing device. The method may also include determining that the current execution mode of the received indication is different than a value of an execution mode of a first execution mode (EM) packet previously-generated by the IT module. The method may also include generating, based on the determining that the current execution mode is different, a second EM packet that provides a value of the current execution mode of the processing device to indicate the change in the execution mode for an instruction in a trace generated by the IT module. The method may further include generating transactional memory (TMX) packets having n bit mode pattern in the packet log. The n is at least two and the n bit mode indicates transaction status of the TMX operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Thilo Schmitt, Peter Lachner, Beeman Strong, Ofer Levy, Thomas Toll, Matthew Merten, Tong Li, Ravi Rajwar, Konrad Lai
  • Publication number: 20050172107
    Abstract: Replay instruction morphing. One disclosed apparatus includes an execution unit to execute an instruction. A replay system replays an altered instruction if the execution unit executes the instruction erroneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Douglas Carmean, David Sager, Thomas Toll, Karol Menezes