General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc.

Gregory Ralph Osborn

Richard Allen Perona

Jonathan G Wootten

Donald B Harbin

Clifford Andrew Williams

Lisa Ponzini De Leon

Karl Krummel

A hardware resource identifier () recognizes hardware resource dependencies in a multi-channel communications system. Initially, system communications domains (D-D) in which system hardware resources are located are identified. Next, managed hardware resources, hardware resource groups and hardware resource group boundaries among the system hardware resources are identified. Association labels are then assigned to the system hardware resources to identify relationships, if any, between the system hardware resources and external hardware, to discern redundant resources within respective ones of the hardware resource groups, and to characterize dedicated coupling between individual ones of the system hardware resources. An abstract resource specification () is then interpreted to locate available system hardware resources, as organized into the system identified communications domains and the identified hardware resource groups, to enable maximum preservation of most functional and least available hardware resources during hardware resource allocation.

Hardware resource identifier for software-defined communications system

A hardware resource manager ( ) dynamically allocates hardware resources in a software-defined communications system. The hardware resource manager ( ) creates a specification of required hardware resources ( ) necessary for executing a system application. The hardware resource manager ( ) then creates a list of candidate hardware resources ( ) from the plurality of available hardware resources in response to an application creating its own abstract resource specification ( ) of required hardware resources. The hardware resource manager ( ) then maps each required hardware resource on the specification of required hardware resources to a least functional and most available candidate hardware resource on the list of candidate hardware resources in a manner that maximally preserves most functional and least available candidate hardware resources on the list of candidate hardware resources ( ).

Dynamic hardware resource manager for software-defined communications system

A data security system ( ) provides cryptographic services in a multiprocessor platform ( ) supporting a distributed application ( ). The distributed application ( ) includes a cryptographic object ( ) that is executable exclusively on the data security system ( ). An input interface object ( ), a cryptographic function ( ), and an output interface objection ( ) form the cryptographic object ( ). The data security system ( ) includes a first processor element ( ) for executing the input interface object ( ), a second processor element ( ) for executing the cryptographic function ( ), and a third processor element ( ) for executing the output interface object ( ). The combination of data security system ( ) and cryptographic object ( ) ensures the separation of plain text data ( ) from cipher text data ( ).

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Gregory Ralph Osborn