Dynamic application programming interface (API) contract generation and conversion through microservice sidecars
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254361
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to the use of sidecars to perform dynamic Application Programming Interface (API) contract generation and conversion. In an example, a first sidecar of a source microservice intercepts a first call to a first API exposed by a destination microservice. The first call makes use of a first API technology specified by a first contract and is originated by the source microservice. An API technology is selected from multiple API technologies.…
Separate network slicing for security events propagation across layers on special packet data protocol context
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256218
An apparatus and system to provide separate network slices for security events are described. A dedicated secure network slice is provided for PDP data from a UE. The network slice is used for detecting security issues and sending security-related information to clients. The communications in the dedicated network slice are associated with a special PDP context used by the UE to interface with the network slice. Once the UE has detected a security issue or has been notified of the…
Quick user datagram protocol (UDP) internet connections (QUIC) packet offloading
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255974
Embodiments include a method of opening a Quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connections (QUIC) socket on a computing platform, initializing QUIC packet processing of a hardware-based offloader, opening a QUIC connection to the offloader, and transmitting a first QUIC packet to the offloader over the QUIC connection. The hardware-based offloader encrypts and transmits the QUIC packet.
Edge computing local breakout
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255972
The present disclosure describes local breakout for edge computing systems, wherein the local breakout selectively routes the traffic from/to a user equipment between an edge compute node or some other service such as a core network, cloud computing service, or the like. Packets related to microservices that are offered by the edge compute node are routed to the edge compute node instead of routing those packets to the core network, and packets that are not related to the microservices…
Efficient encryption in VPN sessions
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255921
Methods, apparatus, and software for efficient encryption in virtual private network (VPN) sessions. A VPN link and an auxiliary link (and associated sessions) are established between computing platforms to support end-to-end communication between respective application running on the platforms. The VPN link may employ a conventional VPN protocol such as TLS or IPsec, while the auxiliary link comprises a NULL encryption VPN tunnel. To transfer data, a determination is made to whether the…
Antenna modules and communication devices
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255382
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) packages, antenna boards, antenna modules, and communication devices (e.g., for millimeter wave communications). For example, in some embodiments, an antenna module may include: a logic die; a radio frequency front-end (RFFE) die in electrical communication with the logic die; and an antenna patch, wherein the RFFE die is closer to the antenna patch than the logic die is to the antenna patch.
Trench contact structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255247
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. A gate dielectric layer is over the top of the fin and laterally adjacent the sidewalls of the fin. A gate electrode is over the gate dielectric layer over the top of the fin and laterally adjacent the…
Integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255234
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower silicon portion, an intermediate germanium portion on the lower silicon portion, and a silicon germanium portion on the intermediate germanium portion. An isolation structure is along sidewalls of the lower silicon…
Sideways vias in isolation areas to contact interior layers in stacked devices
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255137
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic systems with vias that include a horizontal and vertical portion in order to provide interconnects to stacked components, and methods of forming such systems. In an embodiment, an electronic system comprises a board, a package substrate electrically coupled to the board, and a die electrically coupled to the package substrate. In an embodiment the die comprises a stack of components, and a via adjacent to the stack of components, wherein…
Airgap structures for high speed signal integrity
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255130
Processes and structures resulting therefrom for the improvement of high speed signaling integrity in electronic substrates of integrated circuit packages, which is achieved with the formation of airgap structures within dielectric material(s) between adjacent conductive routes that transmit/receive electrical signals, wherein the airgap structures decrease the capacitance and/or decrease the insertion losses in the dielectric material used to form the electronic substrates.
Automated machine collaboration
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12251816
According to various aspects, controller for an automated machine may include: a processor configured to: compare information about a function of the automated machine with information of a set of tasks available to a plurality of automated machines; negotiate, with the other automated machines of the plurality of automated machines and based on a result of the comparison, which task of the set of tasks is allocated to the automated machine.
Scalable virtual machine operation inside trust domains within the trust domain architecture
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254341
Implementations describe a computing system that implements a plurality of virtual machines inside a trust domain (TD), enabled via a secure arbitration mode (SEAM) of the processor. A processor includes one or more registers to store a SEAM range of memory, a TD key identifier of a TD private encryption key. The processor is capable of initializing a trust domain resource manager (TDRM) to manage the TD, and a virtual machine monitor within the TD to manage the plurality of virtual…
Firmware update techniques
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254304
Examples described herein relate to a circuit board that includes a device, firmware memory, and a power controller. In some examples, the firmware memory is to store a firmware update and in response to a software-initiated command, the power controller is to reduce power to the device to cause a firmware update of the device and restore power to the device to cause execution of the firmware update. In some examples, the power controller is to reduce power solely to the device…
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to control address space isolation in a virtual machine
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253955
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to control address space isolation in a virtual machine are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an address width adjustor to identify a memory width value corresponding to a guest memory associated with a virtual machine (VM), and generate an expanded emulated memory width value. The example apparatus also includes a memory mirror manager to generate a first guest physical address (GPA) range based on the memory width value,…
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for autonomous functional testing of a processor
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253925
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for autonomous functional testing of a processor are described. In one example, a processor includes a plurality of processor cores that are each coupled to a respective power management agent circuit; a cache shared by the plurality of processor cores; and a control register, that when set, causes: a save of a state of a first processor core of the plurality of processor cores to storage, a transfer of control of the first processor core to a power…
Systems and methods for stable and elevated idle-mode temperature for assembled semiconductor devices
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253901
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and methods for stable and elevated idle-mode temperature for assembled semiconductor devices. In an embodiment, a processor includes a communication interface configured to receive, from a first hardware component, instructions assigned to the processor for execution. The processor also includes temperature-measurement circuitry configured to monitor an on-chip temperature of the processor. The processor also includes control logic configured…
Reducing power consumption when transferring frames from graphics processors to display panels
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253899
A number of frames may be transferred in one frame period to a display panel followed by at least one frame period during which no frame is transferred. During this link idle time, the display panel continues to work on the transferred frames. However, the link and/or graphics processor may be powered down during this time to reduce power consumption.
Real-time anomaly detection for industrial processes
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253849
In one embodiment, a device comprises interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, via the interface circuitry, a video stream captured by a camera during performance of an industrial process, wherein the video stream comprises a sequence of frames; detects, based on analyzing the sequence of frames, a degree of particle scatter that occurs during performance of the industrial process; and determines, based on the degree of particle scatter, that an…
Shallow-profile optical elements for photonics receivers
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253723
An optical system can include a optical receiver comprising an optical waveguide, an optical lid adjacent the waveguide, and a reflective surface proximate an output of the optical waveguide to direct light from the waveguide towards an output of the optical lid. The optical system can also include a photodetector (PD) die comprising a substrate, a concave mirror, and a photodetector. The concave mirror is formed on a first side of the substrate and the photodetector is disposed on a…
Magneto-optical Kerr effect interconnects for photonic packaging
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253722
An optical package comprising an optical die that is electrically coupled to a package substrate, and an optical interconnect adjacent the optical die. The optical interconnect comprises a first polarizing filter adjacent to a first lens, a second polarizing filter adjacent to a second lens; and a film comprising a magnetic material between the first polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter. The second polarizing filter is rotated with respect to the first polarizing filter and…
