Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for trusted I/O support for I/O devices using external peripheral device link controller
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Application No.: US15857803Application Date: 2017-12-29
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Publication No.: US10664416B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Reshma Lal , Siddhartha Chhabra
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F13/12 ; G06F21/85 ; G06F1/16 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/60

Abstract:
Technologies for secure I/O with an external peripheral device link controller include a computing device coupled to an external dock device by an external peripheral link, such as a Thunderbolt link. The external dock device includes an I/O controller that receives device data from an I/O device, generates a channel identifier associated with the I/O device, and transmits I/O data that includes the channel identifier to a dock controller. The dock controller encapsulates the I/O data to generate peripheral link protocol data and transmits the peripheral link protocol data to a host controller of the computing device over the external peripheral link. The host controller de-encapsulates the peripheral link protocol data and forwards the I/O data to memory. The channel identifier may be a predetermined value associated with the I/O controller, or may include a controller identifier associated with the host controller. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190042485A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRUSTED I/O SUPPORT FOR I/O DEVICES USING EXTERNAL PERIPHERAL DEVICE LINK CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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