Patents Examined by Hua J Song
  • Patent number: 11733904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11726685
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are disclosed herein to control recovery of a memory device from a reduced power state. A memory controller can include a detection circuit configured to monitor the power supply voltage to an array of memory cells during the reduced power state. Control circuitry an initialization procedure for recovery of the memory device from the reduced power state, based on the state of the detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Cariello
  • Patent number: 11726908
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to media management, including “garbage collection,” in memory or storage systems or sub-systems, such as solid state drives, are described. For example, a battery state associated with the memory system or sub-system may be used as an indicator or basis for managing a garbage collection operation on a data block. A controller or the system or sub-system may determine that a battery state or condition satisfies a criterion. Based on determining that the criterion is satisfied the, the garbage collection operation may be postponed until the battery state changes to satisfy a different battery condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aparna U. Limaye, Tracy D. Evans, Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki, Avani F. Trivedi, Jianmin Huang
  • Patent number: 11714567
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a request to migrate data associated with a volume from a first storage pool to a second storage pool; identifying entries in a first table corresponding to rank extents in the first storage pool containing the data; allocating and synchronizing a plurality of second tables for the identified entries of the first table that are located in the volume; transferring the data associated with the volume from the rank extents in the first storage pool containing the data to one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the second storage pool; and updating the second tables to correspond to the transferred data in the one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the second storage pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Clint A. Hardy, Karl A. Nielsen, Matthew J. Kalos, Qiang Xie
  • Patent number: 11709782
    Abstract: Circuitry comprises a translation lookaside buffer to store memory address translations, each memory address translation being between an input memory address range defining a contiguous range of one or more input memory addresses in an input memory address space and a translated output memory address range defining a contiguous range of one or more output memory addresses in an output memory address space; in which the translation lookaside buffer is configured selectively to store the memory address translations as a cluster of memory address translations, a cluster defining memory address translations in respect of a contiguous set of input memory address ranges by encoding one or more memory address offsets relative to a respective base memory address; memory management circuitry to retrieve data representing memory address translations from a memory, for storage by the translation lookaside buffer, when a required memory address translation is not stored by the translation lookaside buffer; detector circ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Paolo Monti, Abdel Hadi Moustafa, Albin Pierrick Tonnerre, Vincenzo Consales, Abhishek Raja
  • Patent number: 11709615
    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein relate to an improved block-level replication system. One or more components in an information management system may receive a request to perform a block-level replication between a source storage device and a destination storage device, and depending on the specific replication mode requested, (i) store block-level changes directly to the destination storage device or (ii) first to a recovery point store and then later to the destination storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Bhaskar Ausarkar, Andrei Erofeev, Amit Mitkar, Vijay H. Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11704206
    Abstract: A host is configured to communicate with a storage controller over a first storage area network. A request is transmitted from the host to the storage controller to provide read diagnostic parameters of a second storage area network that is used to mirror data controlled by the storage controller to another storage controller. The host receives the read diagnostic parameters of the second storage area network from the storage controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: INTERATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dale F. Riedy, Scott B. Compton, Susan K. Candelaria, Roger G. Hathorn, Harry M. Yudenfriend
  • Patent number: 11704029
    Abstract: A system includes a first memory device having a region allocated as a first persistent memory region (PMR) having a first set of pages, a second memory device comprising a non-volatile memory device having a region allocated as a second PMR region having a second set of pages, and at least one processing device, operatively coupled to the first memory device and the second memory device, to implement a PMR mechanism to cause the second PMR region to be accessible through the first PMR region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph H. Steinmetz, Luca Bert, William Akin
  • Patent number: 11698853
    Abstract: Latency in a node-based compute-near-memory system can be problematic. A solution to the problem can include or use a dedicated software-based cache at each node. The cache can be configured to store information received from each of the other nodes in the system. In an example, the cache can be populated during a breadth first search algorithm to store frontier information from each of the other nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Skyler Arron Windh, Randall Meyer
  • Patent number: 11698868
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking page state changes are provided. An input/output is communicatively coupled to a host having a memory. The I/O device receives a command from the host to monitor page state changes in a region of the memory allocated to a process. The I/O device, bypassing a CPU of the host, modifies data stored in the region based on a request, for example, received from a client device via a computer network. The I/O device records the modification to a bitmap by setting a bit in the bitmap that corresponds to a location of the data in the memory. The I/O device transfers contents of the bitmap to the CPU, wherein the CPU completes the live migration by copying sections of the first region indicated by the bitmap to a second region of memory. In some implementations, the process can be a virtual machine, a user space application, or a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shrijeet Mukherjee, Prashant Chandra, Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak, Horacio Andres Lagar Cavilla, David Alan Dillow
  • Patent number: 11681631
    Abstract: Data base performance is improved using write-behind optimization of covering cache. Non-volatile memory data cache includes a full copy of stored data file(s). Data cache and storage writes, checkpoints, and recovery may be decoupled (e.g., with separate writes, checkpoints and recoveries). A covering data cache supports improved performance by supporting database operation during storage delays or outages and/or by supporting reduced I/O operations using aggregate writes of contiguous data pages (e.g., clean and dirty pages) to stored data file(s). Aggregate writes reduce data file fragmentation and reduce the cost of snapshots. Performing write-behind operations in a background process with optimistic concurrency control may support improved database performance, for example, by not interfering with write operations to data cache. Data cache may store (e.g., in metadata) data cache checkpoint information and storage checkpoint information. A stored data file may store storage checkpoint information (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Krystyna Ewa Reisteter, Cristian Diaconu, Rogério Ramos, Sarika R. Iyer, Siddharth Deepak Mehta, Huanhui Hu
  • Patent number: 11669614
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. An electronic device comprises: a first memory in which an operating system and an application program executed on the operating system are stored; a second memory; a processor for loading at least some codes among codes corresponding to an application program from the first memory to the second memory, and when access information of the codes loaded in the second memory is received from a kernel of an operating system, accessing an area in which the loaded codes are stored, on the basis of the received information and executing the application program; and a snoop for monitoring access to an area in which a preset code, the access of which has been limited, from among codes loaded in the second memory is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong Uk Kim, Byung Hoon Kang, Seung Hyun Ha, Dae Hee Jang, Jin Soo Jang, Seok Hong
  • Patent number: 11663131
    Abstract: An operating method of a system-on-chip includes outputting a prefetch command in response to an update of mapping information on a first read target address, the update occurring in a first translation lookaside buffer storing first mapping information of a second address with respect to a first address, and storing, in response to the prefetch command, in a second translation lookaside buffer, second mapping information of a third address with respect to at least some second addresses of an address block including a second read target address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongmin Jo, Youngseok Kim, Chunghwan You, Wooil Kim
  • Patent number: 11662931
    Abstract: An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured that performs data processing in response to instructions of one of a plurality of software execution environments. First stage partition identifier remapping circuitry remaps a partition identifier specified for a memory transaction by a first software execution environment to a internal partition identifier to be specified with the memory transaction issued to at least one memory system component. In response to a memory transaction to be handled, the at least one memory system component controls allocation of resources for handling the memory transaction or manage contention for the resources in dependence on a selected set of memory system component parameters selected in dependence on the internal partition identifier specified by the memory transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Seow Chuan Lim, Steven Douglas Krueger
  • Patent number: 11663138
    Abstract: Memory pages are background-relocated from a low-latency local operating memory of a server computer to a higher-latency memory installation that enables high-resolution access monitoring and thus access-demand differentiation among the relocated memory pages. Higher access-demand memory pages are background-restored to the low-latency operating memory, while lower access-demand pages are maintained in the higher latency memory installation and yet-lower access-demand pages are optionally moved to yet higher-latency memory installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Lawrence Erickson, Christopher Haywood, Mark D. Kellam
  • Patent number: 11657004
    Abstract: A method and system for memory attack mitigation in a memory device includes receiving, at a memory controller, an allocation of a page in memory. One or more device controllers detects an aggressor-victim set within the memory. Based upon the detection, an address of the allocated page is identified for further action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Vilas K. Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11656803
    Abstract: A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The storage devices may be assigned to one of a plurality of memory tiers, and the data in a storage device may be reassigned to another storage device in a different memory tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Maor Ben Dayan, Omri Palmon, Liran Zvibel, Kanael Arditti
  • Patent number: 11650758
    Abstract: A data storage device and method for host-initiated cached read to recover corrupted data within timeout constraints are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a read look-ahead command from a host to perform a read look-ahead of a first logical address; receive a read command from the host to read a second logical address; and execute the read look-ahead command by performing the following as background operations while executing the read command: read data for a location in the non-volatile memory that corresponds to the first logical address; correct an error in the data; and cache the corrected data in the volatile memory. The cached corrected data can be sent back to the host in response to the host requesting a read of the same logical address. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dattatreya Nayak, Arun Kumar Shukla, Akash Dungrani
  • Patent number: 11644980
    Abstract: A computing platform comprising a first computer system including a first host and a first accelerator communicatively coupled to the first host, including a first memory, a first page table to perform a translation of virtual addresses to physical addresses in the first memory and a first trusted agent to validate the address translations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Pappachan, Reshma Lal
  • Patent number: 11635902
    Abstract: A storage device which is connected to a host using a virtual memory includes a solid state drive that receives a streaming access command including a logical block address (LBA) list and a chunk size, and prefetches stream data requested according to the LBA list and the chunk size from a nonvolatile memory device without an additional command. The prefetched stream data is sequentially loaded onto a buffer, and an in-storage computing block accesses a streaming region registered on the virtual memory to sequentially read the stream data loaded onto the buffer in units of the chunk size. The buffer is mapped onto a virtual memory address of the streaming region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duckho Bae, Dong-Uk Kim, Jaehong Min, Yong In Lee, Jooyoung Hwang