Patents by Inventor Michelle Geppert

Michelle Geppert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Storage system bandwidth determination
    Patent number: 10254814
    Abstract: Techniques for reducing power consumption of a storage controller are provided. An example method includes determining a back-end bandwidth of a storage system, wherein the back-end of the storage system includes a storage drive communicatively coupled to a storage controller. The method also includes determining a front-end bandwidth of the storage system, wherein the front-end of the storage system includes a front-end bus coupling the storage controller to a host. The method also includes computing a target back-end memory bandwidth based on the back-end bandwidth and computing a target front-end memory bandwidth based on the front-end bandwidth. The method also includes reducing power consumption of the storage controller by reducing a clock frequency of a memory device of the storage controller based on the greater of the target back-end memory bandwidth and the target front-end memory bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: James Alexander Fuxa, Michelle Geppert, Yovita Iskandar
  • STORAGE SYSTEM BANDWIDTH DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20170160784
    Abstract: Techniques for reducing power consumption of a storage controller are provided. An example method includes determining a back-end bandwidth of a storage system, wherein the back-end of the storage system includes a storage drive communicatively coupled to a storage controller. The method also includes determining a front-end bandwidth of the storage system, wherein the front-end of the storage system includes a front-end bus coupling the storage controller to a host. The method also includes computing a target back-end memory bandwidth based on the back-end bandwidth and computing a target front-end memory bandwidth based on the front-end bandwidth. The method also includes reducing power consumption of the storage controller by reducing a clock frequency of a memory device of the storage controller based on the greater of the target back-end memory bandwidth and the target front-end memory bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: James Alexander Fuxa, Michelle Geppert, Yovita Iskandar