Electromagnetic shield of an integrated circuit package
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137545
Example implementations relate to an integrated circuit (IC) package, an electronic device having the IC package, and a method of assembling the IC package to a printed circuit board (PCB) of the electronic device. The IC package includes a substrate, a chip, and an electromagnetic shield. The chip is coupled to the substrate. The electromagnetic shield is coupled to the substrate such that the chip is enclosed between the substrate and the electromagnetic shield. The electromagnetic…
Method and system for providing network egress fairness between applications
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137047
Methods and systems are provided to facilitate network egress fairness between applications. At an egress port of a network, an arbitrator can provide fairness-based traffic shaping to data associated with applications. The desired fairness-based traffic shaping can be provided based on bandwidth, traffic classes, or other parameters. Consequently, the egress link's bandwidth can be allocated with fairness among the applications.
Dynamic reconfiguration of resilient logical modules in a software defined server
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137029
Dynamic adaptive reconfiguration of a computing system includes receiving a request to remove a first node in a plurality of physical nodes. An operating system is executing collectively across the plurality of physical nodes, and an application is running on the operating system. It further includes in response to the request, and while the application is running, evacuating virtualized resources associated with the first node to one or more other nodes in the plurality of physical…
Hybrid antennas
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136771
An example apparatus may include a first antenna having a first radiator and a first ground plane and a second antenna having a second radiator and a second ground plane. In some examples, a hybrid antenna may be formed through coupling of the hybrid antenna to components of the first antenna and the second antenna. The hybrid antenna may include a third radiator. In some examples, an electrical interface may be disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna. In this regard,…
Machine vision hand and tool tracking
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136177
In an example in accordance with the present disclosure, an extended reality system is described. The extended reality system includes an imaging system to present virtual objects to a user. The extended reality system also includes a machine vision tracking system. The machine vision tracking system includes a camera to capture images of a user's hand a tool grasped in the user's hand. The machine vision tracking system also includes a processor. The processor 1) tracks a position and…
Virtual storage policies for virtual persistent volumes
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12135885
Example implementations relate to virtual persistent volumes. In an example, a virtual persistent volume storage class is presented to a container orchestrator that includes parameters describing an associated virtual storage policy. In response to a provisioning request that identifies the virtual persistent volume storage class, a virtual persistent volume is created by determining a mapping of the parameters of the virtual persistent volume storage class to parameters of available…
Securing a container ecosystem
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12135826
Examples described herein relate to a security management system to secure a container ecosystem. In some examples, the security management system may protect one or more entities such as container management applications, container images, containers, and/or executable applications within the containers. The security management system may make use of digital cryptography to generate digital signatures corresponding to one or more of these entities and verify them during the execution so…
Toner cartridge having front cover
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12135521
A toner cartridge includes a housing having a first combining portion and a front cover attached to a front end of the housing in a longitudinal direction, wherein the front cover includes a first locking portion to which the first combining portion is to be attached and a notch portion provided in the first locking portion so that the first locking portion is breakable by an external force in a direction in which the front cover is spaced apart from the housing in the longitudinal…
Molded structures with channels
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12134274
An example device may comprise a molded structure and a dependent device coupled to the molded structure. The molded structure comprises thermo-electric traces and channels. The channels are between ten ?m and two hundred ?m, or less in one dimension. The dependent device comprises apertures corresponding to the channels and through which fluids, electromagnetic radiation, or a combination thereof is to travel. The dependent device also comprises contacts corresponding to the…
Method and system for improving analog-to-digital conversion performance
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12132492
A frontend circuit of a time-interleaved ADC is provided. The frontend circuit can include a track-and-hold circuit to sample an analog input signal to the ADC, a sub-ADC circuit to convert the sampled analog input signal to a digital output signal, and a source-follower circuit. An input of the source-follower circuit can be coupled to an output of the track-and-hold circuit, and an output of the source-follower circuit can be coupled to an input of the sub-ADC circuit. The…
Sharing communication lines among multiple buses
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130765
A process includes coupling a push-pull driver of a first bus device to a plurality of communication lines that are associated with a first bus to allow the first bus device to access the first bus using push-pull signaling. The process includes sharing a set of communication lines with the second bus. The sharing includes coupling an open drain driver of a second bus device to the set of communication lines to allow the second bus device to access the second bus using open drain…
Massively parallel processing database for sequence and graph data structures applied to rapid-response drug repurposing
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131808
Systems and methods disclosed herein may include a parallel-processing graph-database solution for protein-sequence analytics to determine a viable therapeutic for a given condition, and may include: determining a protein sequence for the given condition; using sequence database to compare a query sequence of the sequence of the given condition with sequences of other known proteins in the sequence database using the sequence database to determine a similarity of the query sequence with…
System and method for training non-parametric machine learning model instances in a collaborative manner
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131256
A system and a method for training non-parametric Machine Learning (ML) model instances in a collaborative manner is disclosed. A non-parametric ML model instance is trained at each of a plurality of data processing nodes to obtain a plurality of non-parametric ML model instances. Each non-parametric ML model instance developed at each data processing node is shared with each of remaining data processing nodes of the plurality of data processing nodes. Each non-parametric ML model…
Automatically optimized credit pool mechanism based on number of virtual channels and round trip path delay
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131205
Systems and methods are provided for managing data transmissions in integrated circuits using a handshake, credit path, and data path. For example, the handshake between transmission and receiving sides can enable information to be passed over a separate path from the data path. Based on a calculated round trip delay, the system can identify the number of top level flops or registers needed in the credit path, which can be the same as the number of top level flops or registers in the…
End-to-end topology stitching and representation
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131164
End-to-end topology stitching and representation is described. An example includes instructions for receiving, at a server, a set of configuration data for an infrastructure stack, the set of configuration data including configuration data for each of a plurality of domains of the infrastructure stack; parsing the received set of configuration data; stitching together an end-to-end topology for the plurality of domains of the infrastructure stack based at least in part on the parsed set…
Maintenance time window prediction for installing updates to a compute node
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131146
A device and corresponding method are provided to provide accurate estimates of how long it will take to install updates to compute nodes in a large-scale computer deployment. a duration prediction model is trained using historical data from previous updates to compute nodes. The features selected to train the duration prediction model are update features including update component type, update component size, update component duration and compute node features including operating…
Compliance determination of image forming apparatuses
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131080
In an example, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium may include instructions that when executed cause a computing device to generate a virtual device representation of an image forming apparatus on a cloud. Further, instructions cause the computing device to update the virtual device representation on the cloud with a configuration state of the image forming apparatus. Furthermore, instructions cause the computing device to analyze the updated virtual device representation…
Datatype engine to support high performance computing
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131029
A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating a datatype engine (DTE) to support high performance computing. A network interface card (NIC) receives, via a message passing interface, a command to read data from a host memory. The NIC determines that the command indicates a first datatype descriptor stored in the NIC. The NIC forms, based on the command, a packet which indicates a base address and a length associated with the data to be read from the host memory and passes the…
Bios safe mode update with secure authentication when implementing modified bios or original bios
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130926
Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a memory and a controller. In some examples, the controller is to enable a basic input/output system (BIOS) safe mode in response to an authentication procedure. In some examples, the controller is to provide access to back-up variable service region in the memory storing default BIOS data. In some examples, the controller is to start a modified BIOS based on the default BIOS data in…
Tracking a resume point and metrics in a collection of operations
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130804
In some examples, a system receives, as part of a service to update a data store, a collection of operations that are to be performed with respect to the data store, wherein the collection of operations comprises a plurality of different types of operations for respective data blocks of the data store. Multiple operations of a respective type of the different types of operations are batched to produce a batch of operations of the respective type, and the batch of operations of the…
