Intel Corporation

Raj S Yavatkar

Alok Kumar

David M Durham

Vincent J Zimmer

Travis T Schluessler

Michael E Kounavis

Carey W Smith

Charles E Narad

Scott D Hahn

Harrick M Vin

Ravi L Sahita

Tsung-Yuan Charles Tai

Ren Wang

Carlos V Rozas

Christian Maciocco

James P Kardach

Uri Elzur

Prashant R Chandra

Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy

Mona Vij

David M Putzolu

Arun Raghunath

Satyendra Yadav

Priya Rajagopal

Chen-Chi Kuo

Ahmad A Samih

Vikas Aditya

John Keys

Santosh Balakrishnan

Bernard N Keany

Dylan C Larson

Alan Crouch

Charles Tai

Benjamin C Hardekopf

David Durhman

Carey Smith

Dylan Larson

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for obtaining file information regarding a file to be downloaded from a remote location to a computing device, creating at least one empty file in a destination storage based on the file information and communicating block information regarding the empty file to a network interface, and receiving a data packet of the file in the network interface and directly sending a payload of the data packet from the network interface to the destination storage according to the block information, while a host processor of the computing device is in a low power state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Storing data using a direct data path architecture to reduce energy consumption and improve performance

A method and apparatus for cross validation of data using multiple subsystems are described. According to one embodiment of the invention, a computer comprises a first subsystem and a second subsystem; and a memory, the memory comprising a first memory region and a second memory region, the first memory region being associated with the first subsystem and a second memory region being associated with the second subsystem; upon start up of the computer, the first subsystem to validate the second memory region and the second subsystem to validate the first memory region.

Cross validation of data using multiple subsystems

Techniques for self-isolation of a network device that has been identified as potentially harmful. The network device may be isolated from the network except for an out-of-band communication channel that can be used for management purposes to restore or repair the device prior to the network connection being re-established.

Self-isolating and self-healing networked devices

A method and apparatus for placement of temporary relevant data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprising one or more memories through which a producer provides data for access by a consumer in a memory-based producer-consumer relationship, and an agent to monitor access by the producer and consumer to the one or more memories and to direct placement of produced data into at least one of the one or more memories that is closer to the consumer, wherein placement occurs at a time determined by the agent.

Temporally relevant data placement

Cooperative embedded agents as well as manageability and security operations that can be performed on a host system having cooperative embedded agents are disclosed.

Cooperative embedded agents

A hierarchical packet scheduler using hole-filling and multiple packet buffering. Packet references are enqueued into a hierarchical packet scheduler, wherein the hierarchical packet scheduler includes one or more levels, each level including one or more schedulers being served by one or more threads, wherein the number of threads serving a particular level is not dependent on the number of schedulers on the particular level. Packet references are dequeued from the hierarchical packet scheduler at a root level scheduler of the one or more schedulers.

Hierarchical packet scheduler using hole-filling and multiple packet buffering

Method and Apparatuses for determining integrity of a platform and notifying a remote system. In one embodiment a verification agent accesses a portion of a memory on the platform at initialization of the platform to determine if the data has been compromised or corrupted. The verification agent causes the information to be transmitted to a remote system. The verification agent may be local to the platform for which integrity is determined, and transmit the information to a remote administrator. Alternatively, the agent may access the platform over a bus or private channel, or a network connection and indicate information regarding the verification process to an entity remote to the tested platform.

Notifying remote administrator of platform integrity determination

A method and apparatus for two-stage packet classification. In the first stage, which may be implemented in software, a packet is classified on the basis of the packet's network path and, perhaps, its protocol. In the second stage, which may be implemented in hardware, the packet is classified on the basis of one or more transport level fields of the packet. An apparatus of two-stage packet classification may include a processing system for first stage code execution, a classification circuit for performing the second stage of classification, and a memory to store a number of bins, each bin including one or more rules.

Apparatus and method for two-stage packet classification using most specific filter matching and transport level sharing

Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler. A hierarchical packet scheduler is maintained, wherein the hierarchical packet scheduler includes one or more levels, each level including one or more schedulers, wherein one or more threads serve each level. Scheduling operations are performed at each scheduler of the hierarchical packet scheduler by reading a portion of scheduler state from external memory.

Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler

A method and apparatus for sorting packets by packet schedulers using a connected trie data structure is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, the packet scheduler receives a packet on a network and assigns the packet a time stamp value. The packet is inserted into a trie data structure that represents a scheduling horizon and includes a plurality of packets. The packet scheduler transmits the packet over the network based on its sorted order within the trie data structure.

Method and apparatus for sorting packets in packet schedulers using a connected trie data structure

A technique for self-isolation of a network device that has been identified as potentially harmful. The network device may be isolated from the network except for an out-of-band communication channel that can be used for management purposes to restore or repair the device prior to the network connection being re-established.

Techniques for self-isolation of networked devices

A method and system for maintaining partial order of packets in packet processing modules is described. The system includes a memory and a plurality of packet processing modules to process packets that are part of a sequence in order. The memory stores a plurality of indicators, each indicator associated with one of the plurality of packet processing modules to identify which packets in the sequence are to be processed by the packet processing module and which packets in the sequence are to be skipped. The next packet in the sequence to be processed by the packet processing module is determined based on the stored indicators. A packet received at the packet processing module is processed if the packet is the next packet in the sequence to be processed.

Method and system for maintaining partial order of packets

A method and apparatus for two-stage packet classification, the two-stage packet classification scheme including a first stage and a second stage. In the first classification stage, a packet is classified on the basis of the packet's network path. In the second stage of classification, the packet is classified on the basis of one or more transport (or other) fields of the packet. Also disclosed are embodiments of most specific filter matching and transport level sharing, and either one or both of these techniques may be implemented in the two-stage classification method.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Raj S Yavatkar