Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for single entity buffer pool management
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Application No.: US16144992Application Date: 2018-09-27
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Publication No.: US11792307B2Publication Date: 2023-10-17
- Inventor: Cahya Adiansyah Masputra , Karan Sanghi , Mingzhe Zhang , Zeh-Chen Liu , Sandeep Nair
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04L69/16
- IPC: H04L69/16 ; H04L69/163 ; H04L69/164 ; H04L12/46 ; G06F9/54 ; H04L9/40 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F12/10 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F12/02 ; H04L47/2475 ; H04L47/2483 ; H04L47/6295 ; H04L49/00 ; H04L49/9047 ; H04L69/00 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L47/193 ; H04L47/283 ; G06F9/52 ; H04L43/0864 ; G06F16/23 ; G06F21/52 ; H04L47/24 ; H04L47/30 ; H04L47/32 ; H04L47/6275 ; G06F21/56 ; H04L69/22 ; G06F16/22 ; H04L61/103 ; H04L61/2503 ; H04L67/146 ; H04L69/18 ; H04L1/00

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for efficient data transfer within a user space network stack. Unlike prior art monolithic networking stacks, the exemplary networking stack architecture described hereinafter includes various components that span multiple domains (both in-kernel, and non-kernel). For example, unlike traditional “socket” based communication, disclosed embodiments can transfer data directly between the kernel and user space domains. Direct transfer reduces the per-byte and per-packet costs relative to socket based communication. A user space networking stack is disclosed that enables extensible, cross-platform-capable, user space control of the networking protocol stack functionality. The user space networking stack facilitates tighter integration between the protocol layers (including TLS) and the application or daemon. Exemplary systems can support multiple networking protocol stack instances (including an in-kernel traditional network stack).
Public/Granted literature
- US20190303204A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SINGLE ENTITY BUFFER POOL MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2019-10-03
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