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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2021
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Amritpal Singh Mundra, Allen, TX (US);

Eric Lasmana, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 9/546 (2013.01); G06F 15/7807 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

In described examples, a method of routing messages in a system on a chip (SoC) includes a secure message router receiving a message including a content, an identifier of the message's sending (origin) functional block and/or of a receiving (destination) functional block, a message secure value, a promote value, and a demote value. A context corresponding to the identifier is retrieved from a memory. The context includes an allow promote value and an allow demote value. The message secure value is increased if the promote value requests the increase and matches the allow promote value. The message secure value is decreased if the demote value requests the decrease and matches the allow demote value. Cleartext corresponding to the content is made accessible by the destination if the context secure value matches the message secure value. The message is then outputted from the secure message router to the destination.


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