Shared Memory Partitioning Patents (Class 711/153)
  • Patent number: 10565135
    Abstract: A main processor core having a first memory and a sub processor core having a second memory and controlled by the main processor core are included. An operating system is incorporated in the main processor core, and no operating system is incorporated in the sub processor core. Shared memories are formed in the first and second memories, respectively. Data in the shared memories of the first and second memories are synchronized. The main processor core is configured to synchronize the data in the shared memories formed in the first and second memories while the sub processor core stops operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Aoi Kawahara
  • Patent number: 10552040
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for maintaining variable size deduplication segments using fixed size extents. Variable size segments are identified and maintained in a datastore suitcase. Duplicate segments need not be maintained redundantly but can be managed by updating reference counts associated with the segments in the datastore suitcase. Segments are maintained using fixed size extents. A minor increase in storage overhead removes the need for inefficient recompaction when a segment is removed from the datastore suitcase. Fixed size extents can be reallocated for storage of new segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUEST SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Goutham Rao, Vinod Jayaraman
  • Patent number: 10534742
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling hot-plugging of devices in virtualized systems. A hypervisor obtains respective values representing respective quantities of a resource for a plurality of virtual root buses of a virtual machine (VM). The hypervisor determines a first set of address ranges of the resource that are allocated for one or more virtual devices attached to at least one of the plurality of virtual root buses. The hypervisor determines, in view of the first set of allocated address ranges, a second set of address ranges of the resource available for attaching one or more additional virtual devices to at least one of the plurality of virtual root buses. The hypervisor assigns to the plurality of virtual root buses non-overlapping respective address ranges of the resource within the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: RED HAT ISRAEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Marcel Apfelbaum, Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 10491602
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide content management based on spatial and temporal information are described. A hosted service initiates operations to provide content management based on spatial and temporal information upon receiving a location of a client device and a user identifier. A schedule of the user is processed to identify a geo-fenced area assigned to the user during a designated time-period. Upon detecting the location of the client device as within the geo-fenced area during the designated time-period, a content is provided to the client device for rendering to the user in relation to a task assigned to the user within the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Leela S Tamma
  • Patent number: 10459849
    Abstract: A computing device receives, at a scheduler of the computing device, a first write request from a first thread of a plurality of threads. The scheduler schedules access for the plurality of threads across a boundary of an access-controlled region in a memory of the computing device. The computing device determines that a second memory region in the access-controlled region is allocated for storing data copied from a first memory region. During copying, to the second memory region, the data copied from the first memory region, the computing device permits scheduling, by the scheduler, an operation to read from the first memory region for any read requests from the plurality of threads during the copying; and denies scheduling, by the scheduler, an operation to write to the first memory region for any subsequent write requests from the plurality of threads during the copying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Charles S. Shorb, James P. Carroll
  • Patent number: 10409984
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing a plurality of stored fingerprints, wherein each of the stored fingerprints is associated with a respective software environment and a respective mobile device; receiving from a first mobile device a first fingerprint of a first software environment in the first mobile device; determining whether the stored fingerprints include less than a threshold amount of fingerprints identical to the first fingerprint; based on a determination that the stored fingerprints include less than the threshold amount of fingerprints identical to the first fingerprint, determining that the first software environment is a compromised software environment; and performing a corrective measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan McCauley, Bob Lee, Oliver S. C. Quigley, Eric Monti, Michael R. Lewis
  • Patent number: 10389731
    Abstract: Techniques described herein provide multi-factor authentication based on positioning data. Generally described, configurations disclosed herein enable a system to authorize a particular action using positioning data, and possibly other data, associated with an identity. For example, when a user wishes to change a password or access a secured account, the system can authenticate a user if a device associated with the user is located in the secure area. The system can authenticate a user if a requested operation and/or a predetermined pattern of movement associated with the user is detected. For instance, the system allows the user to change the password when the user's computer has followed a predetermined pattern of movement, and when one or more verification procedures meets one or more criteria while the location of the computing device is within the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen P. DiAcetis, David Mahlon Hoover, Cristina del Amo Casado, Lanny D. Natucci, Jr., Janet Lynn Schneider, Sanjib Saha, Fernando Gonzalez, Jonathan Matthew Kay
  • Patent number: 10356127
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices method for applying security policies in a virtualization environment. In one aspect, the method is performed at an electronic device of a plurality of electronic devices in a computing network, the electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. A plurality of user-space instances is instantiated. Respective properties that characterize the user-space instances are identified, and based on the identified properties, respective security policies that define authorized or unauthorized operations and data communications for user-space instances are identified. Furthermore, the identified security policies are applied so as to detect and/or remediate violations of the identified set of security policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: NEUVECTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Fei Huang, Gang Duan
  • Patent number: 10324657
    Abstract: Systems and methods for accounting for data whose rebuilding is deferred in a dispersed storage network. The methods include determining a number of compromised slices associated with a dispersed storage unit. The number of existing slices associated with the dispersed storage unit is also determined. A comparison of the number of compromised slices plus the number of existing slices associated with the dispersed storage unit, to a storage capacity, is performed in order to produce a capacity determination. Write requests directed towards the dispersed storage unit may be failed based on the capacity determination. For example, the DS unit may fail write requests, when a write request would cause the dispersed storage unit to exceed the storage capacity of the dispersed storage unit when taking into consideration existing slices as well as compromised slices that need to be rebuilt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wesley B. Leggette, Jason K. Resch
  • Patent number: 10313579
    Abstract: A method of image processing includes capturing two frames of image data using a camera having a phase detection auto focus (PDAF) sensor, subtracting phase difference pixel data associated with the two frames of image data to produce residual phase difference values, detecting a region-of-interest change based on the residual phase differences values, and determining a focus for the PDAF camera sensor based on the detected region-of-interest change. The method may further include compressing the residual phase difference values, sending the compressed residual phase difference values to a processor, and reconstructing, with the processor, the phase difference pixel data from the compressed residual phase difference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Shankar Kadambala, Soman Nikhara, Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi
  • Patent number: 10289307
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for maintaining a cache index inside a deduplicated storage system is discussed. A block allocation is requested from a persistent storage device, wherein the block allocation comprises a logical block for storing data. The logical block is determined to be unavailable. A next sequential block is requested from the persistent storage until an available logical block is located, the available logical block satisfying the block allocation. Data comprising a plurality of buckets is written to the available logical block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Satish Visvanathan, Mahesh Kamat, Rahul B Ugale, Ganesh Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 10216430
    Abstract: A method for managing an observed order of instructions in a computing system includes utilizing an overloaded memory barrier instruction to specify whether a global ordering constraint or a local ordering constraint is enforced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cavium, LLC
    Inventors: Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee, Richard Eugene Kessler, Mike Bertone, Chris Comis, Bryan Chin
  • Patent number: 10205628
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting whether network nodes and CPE devices serviced by the network nodes are in the same region of a utility power grid are described. Methods and apparatus for using the result of the determination to control, e.g., automatically, backup power resource allocation are also described. Transforming the information collected from CPE devices and other devices into images which are displayed, e.g, as maps, is also described. An automatic determination of whether a network node is in the same power grid region as one or more groups of CPE devices to which the network node provides service. If a network node and a group of CPE devices serviced by the network node are in different utility power regions, backup power devices are automatically deployed to support service to CPE devices during an external power outage at the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Howard Pfeffer, Peter H Wolff
  • Patent number: 10168902
    Abstract: Selective purging of a structure associated with address translation, such as a translation look-aside buffer. When purging of entries of a structure relating to a virtual processor executing on a physical processor is requested, it is determined whether the physical processor may refrain from such purging. A check is made as to whether purging has previously been performed on this physical processor for this virtual processor, and if so, the physical processor may refrain from purging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Bradbury, Lisa Cranton Heller, Christian Jacobi, Anthony Saporito
  • Patent number: 10133699
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling hot-plugging of devices in virtualized systems. A hypervisor obtains respective values representing respective quantities of a resource for a plurality of virtual root buses of a virtual machine (VM). The hypervisor determines a first set of address ranges of the resource that are allocated for one or more virtual devices attached to at least one of the plurality of virtual root buses. The hypervisor determines, in view of the first set of allocated address ranges, a second set of address ranges of the resource available for attaching one or more additional virtual devices to at least one of the plurality of virtual root buses. The hypervisor assigns to the plurality of virtual root buses non-overlapping respective address ranges of the resource within the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: RED HAT ISRAEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Marcel Apfelbaum, Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 10133631
    Abstract: A method includes identifying an encoded slice for rebuilding. The method further includes determining whether the set of encoded slices is stored in an encrypted section of a vault or within an unencrypted section of the vault. The method further includes, when the set of encoded slices is stored in the unencrypted section of the vault, determining whether the set of storage units have viewing rights. The method further includes, when the set of storage units does not have the viewing rights, enabling a restricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice. The method further includes, when the set or storage units does have the viewing rights, enable an unrestricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Greg R. Dhuse, Wesley B. Leggette, Jason K. Resch, Trevor J. Vossberg
  • Patent number: 10129176
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated failure recovery of subsystems of a management system are described. The subsystems are built and modeled as services, and their management, specifically their failure recovery, is done in a manner similar to that of services and resources managed by the management system. The management system consists of a microkernel, service managers, and management services. Each service, whether a managed service or a management service, is managed by a service manager. The service manager itself is a service and so is in turn managed by the microkernel. Both managed services and management services are monitored via in-band and out-of-band mechanisms, and the performance metrics and alerts are transported through an event system to the appropriate service manager. If a service fails, the service manager takes policy-based remedial steps including, for example, restarting the failed service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Devendra Rajkumar Jaisinghani
  • Patent number: 10073872
    Abstract: A database memory manager determines a size class for each of a plurality of memory allocation requests. The memory manager then, based on the determined size classes, assigns which of a plurality of sub-allocators forming part of a plurality of memory pools should handle each memory allocation request. The sub-allocators assignments are based on predefined size ranges for each size class. The corresponding assigned sub-allocators then identify locations within the memory for each memory allocation request. The corresponding assigned sub-allocators next handle the memory allocation requests to allocate memory at the identified locations such that one of the sub-allocators utilizes both thread local storage and core-striped memory management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Ivan Schreter, Daniel Booss, Daniel Egenolf
  • Patent number: 10073809
    Abstract: Technologies for one-side remote memory access communication include multiple computing nodes in communication over a network. A receiver computing node receives a message from a sender node and extracts a segment identifier from the message. The receiver computing node determines, based on the segment identifier, a segment start address associated with a partitioned global address space (PGAS) segment of its local memory. The receiver computing node may index a segment table stored in the local memory or in a host fabric interface. The receiver computing node determines a local destination address within the PGAS segment based on the segment start address and an offset included in the message. The receiver computing node performs a remote memory access operation at the local destination address. The receiver computing node may perform those operations in hardware by the host fabric interface of the receiver computing node. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James Dinan, Mario Flajslik
  • Patent number: 10067881
    Abstract: A storage device that maps logical addresses to physical addresses includes a memory that stores machine instructions and a processor coupled to the memory that executes the machine instructions to store a compressed mapping table in the memory. The compressed mapping table correlates logical addresses to locations in a storage. The storage device also stores a bundle of uncompressed mapping table entries starting at a first location in a cache and maps a first logical address associated with the uncompressed mapping table entry to the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kien Pham, Gunter Knestele, Janak Koshia, Maliheh Sarikhani, Jeffrey Furlong
  • Patent number: 10067688
    Abstract: Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include storage resource management in virtualized environments. In this regard, in one aspect, a virtualization layer is provided in a storage controller as an interface between one or more clients and a storage device. The storage controller is configured to trap storage resource requests from a client. A virtualized resource manager creates a virtual resource allocation that corresponds to a physical resource allocation in the storage device. The client receives the virtual resource allocation from the virtualization layer and subsequently accesses the virtual resource allocation through the storage controller as if the client were the sole user of the storage device. By trapping the storage resource requests at the storage controller and providing the virtual resource allocations to the one or more clients, it is possible to share compatibly the storage device among the one or more clients in a virtualized environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Konstantin Dorfman, Assaf Shacham
  • Patent number: 10057343
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for implementing synchronization of state information in an efficient, scalable manner. A shared state server receives a request from a client device to access a scope containing state information. The scope is distributed over a partition(s) via the use of a “data grid” thereby increasing scalability. The shared state server relays the request to a data grid server responsible for maintaining the data grid comprised of an in-memory cache and partitions outside of the in-memory cache. The request includes a key associated with a value corresponding to the requested state information. The data grid server obtains the value associated with the key from its data grid and sends it to the shared state server to be relayed to the requesting client device. In this manner, the state information is stored in a scalable manner thereby improving the efficiency in synchronizing state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Curtiss J. Howard, Todd E. Kaplinger, William A. Nagy
  • Patent number: 10057348
    Abstract: Techniques for retrieving data blocks are provided. In one aspect, a storage fabric address of a controller associated with a data block is retrieved by a node. If the node is on the same storage fabric as the retrieved address, the data block may be retrieved over the storage fabric. In another aspect, a directory server maintains mappings of data blocks to storage fabric addresses of controllers associated with the data blocks. A request for the location of the data block includes the storage fabric address of the associated controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Michael G. Myrah, Balaji Natrajan
  • Patent number: 10049046
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing region zero-fill on demand for tiered memory including a first region in a first memory tier having a page cache in physical memory, where virtual memory includes a mmap of the first region. An input can be controlled between zeroes and the first region to the page cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Michaud, Roy E. Clark, Kenneth J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9971968
    Abstract: A determination method includes: generating, when a logical formula is received, another statement group that shares either one of individual statements and one or plural statements of statement groups with each of the individual statements and statement groups that are included in the logical formula or a changed logical formula acquired with the performance of logically equivalent conversion with regard to the logical formula, the logical formula or the changed logical formula including a logical disjunction of the individual statements or the statement groups that are logical conjunctions of the one or plural statements; and performing a determination process of the logical formula, wherein the logical formula is determined as not satisfied when a determination result indicating that the statements that are included in the other statement group are not satisfied is obtained in the determination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Wakana Yamada, Kiichi Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kinomura
  • Patent number: 9965727
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a computer implemented method for resolving abnormal contention on a computer system. The method includes detecting, using a processor, abnormal contention of a serially reusable resource caused by a first process, wherein the abnormal contention includes the first process blocking the serially reusable resource from a second process that is waiting to use the serially reusable resource. The method includes collecting, in a computer storage medium, resource data in a serialized resource history database and analyzing the resource data associated with the serially reusable resource and adjusting, using the processor, resource allocation for the first process of the serially reusable resource based on the resource data. The method also includes processing, using the processor and the serially reusable resource, the first process based on the resource allocation and releasing, using the processor, the serially reusable resource by the first process in response to the first process completing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karla K. Arndt, Joseph W. Gentile, Nicholas R. Jones, Nicholas C. Matsakis, David H. Surman
  • Patent number: 9965417
    Abstract: Techniques for communication with a host system via a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) communication fabric are disclosed herein. A peripheral device having its own memory address space executes a boot ROM to initialize a PCIe-to internal memory address space bridge and to disable MSIx interrupts. The peripheral device monitors a specific location in memory dedicated to MSIx interrupts for a particular value that indicates that PCIe device enumeration is complete. At this point, the peripheral device knows that its PCIe base address registers have been set by the host, and sets address translation registers for translating addresses in the address space of the host to the address space of the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Sarosh I. Azad, Sunita Jain
  • Patent number: 9934047
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving information to invoke a transition from a first operating system to a second operating system, copying a system context for the second operating system from a location of a non-volatile memory to a volatile memory, the location associated with the second operating system and transitioning from the first operating system to the second operating system using the system context for the second operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Faraz A. Siddiqi, Barnes Cooper
  • Patent number: 9928181
    Abstract: A computing device within a reflective memory system includes a memory block and a special purpose processor. The memory block includes a plurality of memory areas, which are configured to store data of a corresponding one of a plurality of external devices. The special purpose processor is configured to intercept a write request. The write request is associated with a first external device of the plurality of external devices, and the first external device is associated with a first memory area of the plurality of memory areas. The special purpose processor is configured to determine whether the write request is valid or invalid, write the data of the first external device to the first memory area if the write request is valid, and prevent the data of the first external device from being written to the memory block if the write request is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS, LLC
    Inventors: Oscar L. Meek, Gregory S. Droba
  • Patent number: 9916099
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for staged execution pipelining and allocating resource to staged execution pipelines are provided. One or more execution pipelines are established, where each of the one or more execution pipelines includes one or more execution stages. Data is provided to the one or more execution pipelines for processing and resources are allocated to the execution pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nishanth Alapati, Pradeep Vincent, David Carl Salyers
  • Patent number: 9858107
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a computer system and a computer implemented method for resolving abnormal contention on the computer system. The method includes detecting, using a processor and at a hypervisor level of the computer system, abnormal contention of a serially reusable resource caused by a first virtual machine. The abnormal contention includes the first virtual machine experiencing resource starvation of computer system resources used for processing the first virtual machine, causing the first virtual machine to block the serially reusable resource from a second virtual machine that is waiting to use the serially reusable resource. The method also includes adjusting resource allocation at the hypervisor level of the computer system resources for the first virtual machine, processing the first virtual machine based on the resource allocation, and releasing the serially reusable resource by the first virtual machine in response to the first virtual machine processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karla K. Arndt, Joseph W. Gentile, Nicholas R. Jones, Nicholas C. Matsakis, David H. Surman
  • Patent number: 9836492
    Abstract: A distributed hash table (“DHT”) is created with partitions that have different sizes. A hash function allocates data to the partitions in the DHT at approximately equal rates. When the data stored on a partition approaches the storage capacity of the partition, the partition is split by adding a new partition to the DHT that has a size that is different than the sizes of the other partitions in the DHT. A portion of the data stored on the split partition is then reallocated to the new partition. A portion of a keyspace previously assigned to the split partition is also allocated to the new partition. Once the keyspace is reallocated, the hash function can allocate data to the new partition in the DHT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Hermanson
  • Patent number: 9830222
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a computing device, an access request to one or more site controllers. The method further includes identifying, by a site controller, storage containers based on DSN addresses. The method includes sending, by the site controller, the access request to the identified storage containers. The method includes interpreting, by a container controller, the access request to identify storage units affiliated with some of the DSN addresses. The method includes determining, by the container controller, whether the storage units are in a storage failure mode. The method includes when the storage units are in the storage failure mode, determining, by the container controller, whether to rebuild, to change virtual to physical address mapping, or to migrate encoded data slices. The method includes, when the encoded data slices are to be rebuild, facilitating, by the container controller, rebuilding of the encoded data slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary W. Grube, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 9825904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to overlay network address management. One embodiment includes an overlay gateway including an overlay network manager associated with a physical network. The overlay network manager prevents duplicate address assignment for overlay domains having a first sharing status and performs address translation for overlay domains having a second sharing status. Address translation is avoided for overlay domains having the first sharing status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Benny, Amitabha Biswas, Jayakrishna Kidambi
  • Patent number: 9807477
    Abstract: An optical data center network system including multiple tier-1 optical switches, multiple tier-2 optical switches and multiple tier-3 optical switches is provided. A pod is formed by the tier-1 optical switches connected to each other through ribbon fibers. A macro pod is formed by the tier-2 optical switches connected to each other through ribbon fibers, and each of the tier-2 optical switches is connected to all of the tier-1 optical switches in one pod. The tier-3 optical switches are connected to each other through ribbon fibers, and each of the tier-3 optical switches is connected to all of the tier-2 optical switches in one macro pod. Each optical switch in each tier is implemented by using the Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) as a basic element, which has been commercialized numerously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Maria C. Yuang, Po-Lung Tien, Hsing-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9792431
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selectively masking data on virtual storage devices may include (1) identifying data stored on a virtual storage device that can be accessed by a virtual machine, (2) intercepting, from a process executing outside the virtual machine, an attempt by a process of the virtual machine to read the data, (3) determining that the virtual machine process is not authorized to read the data, and (4) in response to determining that the virtual machine process is not authorized to read the data, masking the data from the virtual machine process. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Chirag Dalal, Amitrajit Banerjee
  • Patent number: 9778853
    Abstract: An improved technique for storing I/O metrics includes assigning metric values to data buckets held in kernel memory. Each data bucket covers a particular range of values of a respective metric and is configured as a counter, whose count is incremented each time the multipathing driver obtains or computes a metric value that falls within the range of the data bucket. Bucket counts can be read by an external program to obtain aggregate information about I/O metrics over time. The aggregate information can be fed back to the multipathing driver to enable improved selections of paths for conveying data to and from a storage array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Deepak M. Gaikwad, Robert J. Pellowski, Edith Epstein, Hitesh Trivedi, Helen S. Raizen
  • Patent number: 9781129
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system for use in authenticating an entity. An authentication request is received from the entity. An input signal is received from a communications device associated with the entity. The input signal comprises the current location of the communications device. The current location of the communications device is derived from the input signal. Based on the current location of the communications device, an event is detected at substantially the same location as the current location of the communications device. An analysis is performed between the current location of the communications device and the event. An authentication result is generated based on the analysis between the current location of the communications device and the event. The authentication result can be used for authenticating the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Daniel V. Bailey, Lawrence N. Friedman, Samuel Curry, Yedidya Dotan
  • Patent number: 9753648
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for maintaining variable size deduplication segments using fixed size extents. Variable size segments are identified and maintained in a datastore suitcase. Duplicate segments need not be maintained redundantly but can be managed by updating reference counts associated with the segments in the datastore suitcase. Segments are maintained using fixed size extents. A minor increase in storage overhead removes the need for inefficient recompaction when a segment is removed from the datastore suitcase. Fixed size extents can be reallocated for storage of new segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Quest Software Inc.
    Inventors: Goutham Rao, Vinod Jayaraman
  • Patent number: 9742855
    Abstract: A method for communication includes posting, by a software process, a set of buffers in a memory of a host processor and creating in the memory a list of labels associated respectively with the buffers. The software process pushes a first part of the list to a network interface controller (NIC), while retaining a second part of the list in the memory under control of the software process. Upon receiving a message containing a label, sent over a network, the NIC compares the label to the labels in the first part of the list and, upon finding a match to the label, writes data conveyed by the message to a buffer in the memory. Upon a failure to find the match in the first part of the list, the NIC passes the message from the NIC to the software process for handling using the second part of the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shahaf Shuler, Noam Bloch, Ofer Hayut, Richard Graham, Ariel Shahar, Yossef Itigin
  • Patent number: 9715502
    Abstract: Techniques are described for migrating data from source storage to destination storage using a chunking technique. The data to be migrated may be divided into a number of chunks according to a factor that is the number of migration modules to be employed in migrating the data. The chunks may be stored on intermediate storage and migrated from the intermediate storage to the destination storage by the migration modules executing in parallel. Because the number of chunks is based on a factor that is the number of migration modules, the utilization of the migration modules may be substantially equivalent during the migration process. The chunks are generated with a size to optimize input/output operations and prevent timeouts during read operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Manoj Chakravarthi Manukonda
  • Patent number: 9715349
    Abstract: Technical solutions for providing real time analytics of a private area of a virtual address space are described. One general aspect includes a method that includes determining, by a processor, a start address and a size of the private area of the virtual address space. The method also includes determining, by the processor, a highest address corresponding to a user region of the private area. The method also includes determining, by the processor, a lowest address corresponding to a high-end region of the private area. The method also includes storing, by the processor, the determined information in a common area outside the virtual address space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Hom, Paula M. Spens, Scott B. Tuttle, Elpida Tzortzatos
  • Patent number: 9703501
    Abstract: Technical solutions for providing real time analytics of a private area of a virtual address space are described. One general aspect includes a method that includes determining, by a processor, a start address and a size of the private area of the virtual address space. The method also includes determining, by the processor, a highest address corresponding to a user region of the private area. The method also includes determining, by the processor, a lowest address corresponding to a high-end region of the private area. The method also includes storing, by the processor, the determined information in a common area outside the virtual address space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Hom, Paula M. Spens, Scott B. Tuttle, Elpida Tzortzatos
  • Patent number: 9697052
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting the use of partition templates in a multitenant application server environment. A partition template, including a partition configurator and/or attributes, can be used to configure partitions deployed to a domain using that partition template. When a request is received to create a new partition, a selected partition template is determined. The partition configurator of that partition template is then used to configure and deploy the partition to the domain at a corresponding virtual target, which in turn is associated with a target system (e.g., a computer server, or a cluster). A plurality of partition templates can be provided, wherein each partition template can include its own partition configurator and/or attributes that can be used to configure partitions deployed to the domain using that partition template, including different configuration attributes for each partition template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Dipol, Martin Mares, Nazrul Islam, Romain Grecourt, Jennifer Galloway
  • Patent number: 9679003
    Abstract: A concurrent transaction validate phase with the transaction operations read, compute, and write allows for a rendezvous-based optimistic concurrency control process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Mustafa Canim, Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani
  • Patent number: 9667257
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of logic blocks and a logic unit. The logic blocks are grouped into one or more partitions. The logic unit controls external access to the one or more partitions, controls programming of the one or more partitions and controls interconnection and operation of the one or more partitions during operation of the programmable logic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Joerg Borchert, Jurijus Cizas, Shrinath Eswarahally, Mark Stafford, Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9622079
    Abstract: A method of accessing electronic content received by a mobile device includes: determining a current location of the mobile device; comparing the current location with a zone within which an instance of electronic content may be accessed; when the result of the comparison indicates that the mobile device is located within the zone, accessing by the mobile device the instance of electronic content and providing at least part of the instance of electronic content for display on the mobile device; determining a new current location of the mobile device while the instance of electronic content is being accessed; and checking that the new current location of the mobile device is with the zone. If the mobile device is no longer within the zone, the mobile device terminates the access to the instance of electronic content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Giuseppe Giordano, Emmanuel Viale, Jean-Baptiste Delinselle
  • Patent number: 9600692
    Abstract: Disclosed aspects include managing access to a particular storage unit in a storage facility. The particular storage unit is coupled, in the storage facility, with both a particular storage unit identifier for the particular storage unit and an access management parameter for managing access to data on the particular storage unit. A device is used to identify the particular storage unit for write protection based on the particular storage unit identifier. In embodiments, the device includes an indicator to visually indicate a proper configuration and the particular storage unit identifier can be a world wide name. Aspects of the disclosure include managing the device for connection with the storage facility and access management for the storage facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Emmanuel Barajas Gonzalez, Shaun E. Harrington, David C. Reed, Max D. Smith
  • Patent number: 9600190
    Abstract: A method includes, with a guest, executing a first virtual machine function, determining a first pointer value stored in a register of a processor running on the host system while the first virtual machine function is executed, the first pointer value pointing to a first page table corresponding to a default page table, the first page table indicating that the guest has access to a first privileged page, switching to the first page table, executing a second virtual machine function, the second virtual machine function, determining a second pointer value stored in the register of the processor while the second virtual machine function is executed, the second pointer value pointing to a second page table corresponding to the default page table, the second page table that indicates that the guest has access to a second privileged page, and switching to the second page table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 9529618
    Abstract: A process can be scheduled between first and second hosts that using a virtual file system that is shared between the hosts can be used. The process, running on a first hypervisor of the first host, can be scheduled to run on a second hypervisor of the second host. A file can be created that includes the data content of the process address space for the file. The file can be mapped address space of the virtual file system. Data from the physical memory of the first host can be transferred to physical memory of the second host using page fault routines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Borntraeger, Heiko Carstens, Dominik Dingel, Matthias Klein, Einar Lueck