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Patent No.:

US 9729320 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2015

Apparatus and method for software enabled access to protected hardware resources

Applicant:

Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Amer Haider, Saratoga, CA (US);

Muhammad Raghib Hussain, Saratoga, CA (US);

Richard Eugene Kessler, Northborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:

Cooley LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jayesh Jhaveri

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G08B 13/00 (2006.01); G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 29/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); G06F 21/70 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 21/70 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); H04L 9/0897 (2013.01);
Abstract

A semiconductor includes a set of protected hardware resources, where at least one protected hardware resource stores a secure key. The semiconductor also includes a computation kernel and a memory to store a resource enablement module executed by the computation kernel. The resource enablement module selectively enables a protected hardware resource in response to a delivered key corresponding to the secure key.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Haider, Amer. (2017). Apparatus and method for software enabled access to protected hardware resources (U.S. Patent No. 9729320). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9729320

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