Patents by Inventor Tom St. John

Tom St. John 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).

  • Technologies for integrated thread scheduling
    Patent number: 9916178
    Abstract: Technologies for integrated thread scheduling include a computing device having a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured to detect and suspend a thread that is being blocked by one or more communication operations. A thread scheduling engine of the NIC is configured to move the suspended thread from a running queue of the system thread scheduler to a pending queue of the thread scheduling engine. The thread scheduling engine is further configured to move the suspended thread from the pending queue to a ready queue of the thread scheduling engine upon determining any dependencies and/or blocking communications operations have completed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James Dinan, Mario Flajslik, Tom St. John
  • TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTEGRATED THREAD SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20170090979
    Abstract: Technologies for integrated thread scheduling include a computing device having a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured to detect and suspend a thread that is being blocked by one or more communication operations. A thread scheduling engine of the NIC is configured to move the suspended thread from a running queue of the system thread scheduler to a pending queue of the thread scheduling engine. The thread scheduling engine is further configured to move the suspended thread from the pending queue to a ready queue of the thread scheduling engine upon determining any dependencies and/or blocking communications operations have completed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: James Dinan, Mario Flajslik, Tom St. John