Patents Examined by Christine T. Tu
  • Patent number: 11973691
    Abstract: This application provides data transmission methods, devices, and systems. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving, by a central device of a wireless network, at least one first data packet sent by a remote device of the wireless network, wherein each of the at least one first data packet comprises a sequence number indicating a relative location of a payload of the corresponding first data packet in a second data packet; reordering, by the central device, the at least one first data packet, based on the sequence number of each of the at least one first data packet, to obtain the second data packet; and sending, by the central device, the second data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangping Niu, Hanyu Wei, Yinliang Hu, Chao Hou, Shike Wang
  • Patent number: 11960360
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for redundancy-based error detection in a memory device are described. A memory device may read multiple copies of a codeword from memory and generate for each codeword copy an error detection bit that indicates whether the memory device detected an error in that codeword. Additionally, the memory device may compare the codeword copies and generate one or more match bits that indicate whether corresponding portions of the codewords match. Using a combination of the error detection bits and the match bits, the memory device may determine the error status of each codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott E. Schaefer, Aaron P. Boehm
  • Patent number: 11960989
    Abstract: A controller estimates optimal read threshold values for a memory device using deep learning. The memory device includes multiple pages coupled to select word lines in a memory region. The controller performs multiple read operations on a select type of page for each word line using multiple read threshold sets, obtains fail bit count (FBC) information associated with each read operation, and determines an optimal read threshold set for each word line based on the FBC information. When optimal read threshold sets for the select word lines are different each other, the controller predicts a best read threshold set using the optimal read threshold sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Fan Zhang, Aman Bhatia, Xuanxuan Lu, Meysam Asadi, Haobo Wang
  • Patent number: 11953549
    Abstract: A detection system for a SlimSAS slot and a method thereof are disclosed. In the detection system, a detecting device generates and transmits a detection signal to a TAP controller; the TAP controller converts the received detection signal into a detection signal in JTAG format, and transmits the detection signal in JTAG format to a CPLD chip and a controllable power module chip of a detection card and/or a boundary scan chip of a circuit board; a detection can be performed on the SMBus pins, the differential signal receiving pins, the differential signal transmitting pins, the clock pins, the sideband pins and the ground pins of the SlimSAS connection interface through the boundary scan chip, the HCSL to LVDS module chip, the IIC chip and the CPLD chip. Therefore, the technical effect of improving slot stability and detection coverage of a SlimSAS slot detection can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, Inventec Corporation
    Inventor: Kai Zou
  • Patent number: 11947412
    Abstract: Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices in which maintenance operations can be scheduled on an as-needed basis for those memory portions where activity (e.g., operations in excess of a predetermined threshold) warrants a maintenance operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory including a memory location, and circuitry configured to determine a count corresponding to a number of operations at the memory location, to schedule a maintenance operation for the memory location in response to the count exceeding a first predetermined threshold, and to decrease the count by an amount corresponding to the first predetermined threshold in response to executing the scheduled maintenance operation. The circuitry may be further configured to disallow, in response to determining that the count has reached a maximum permitted value, further operations at the memory location until after the count has been decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Dean D. Gans
  • Patent number: 11946969
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a multi-die clock stop trigger are described. A computing system includes a plurality of semiconductor dies connected together and sharing a global clock stop trigger signal which is pulled high via a resistor tied to a supply voltage. Each semiconductor die has a clock generation unit which generates local clocks for the die. Each clock generation unit monitors for local clock stop triggers, and if one of the local triggers is detected, the clock generation unit stops local clocks on the die and pulls the global clock stop trigger signal low. When the other clock generation units on the other semiconductor dies detect the global clock stop trigger at the logic low level, these clock generation units also stop their local clocks. Captured data is then retrieved from the computing system for further analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Fleckenstein, Tal Lazmi, Ori Isachar
  • Patent number: 11943050
    Abstract: This disclosure introduces an advancement to the error indication message to provide detailed information about errors in configurations that are arriving from the Layer 2 to the Layer 1. A method is disclosed, comprising: performing physical layer control (PHY) of a wireless signal at a Layer 1 (L1) software module; performing medium access control (MAC) of the wireless signal at a Layer 2 (L2) software module; providing an application programming interface between the L1 software module and the L2 software module for receiving L1 configuration messages and providing error codes to the L2 software module; receiving a L1 configuration message at a Layer 1 software module; and providing an enhanced error code progressively from a L1 software module to the Layer 2 (L2) software module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Mudassar Khan, Ajay Sharma, Somasekhar Pemmasani
  • Patent number: 11943068
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system and a method for error signaling for a message received in a serial bus system are provided. The user station includes a communication control unit for creating a message to be transmitted serially to at least one further user station of the bus system, or for reading a message, received serially from at least one further user station, and a transceiver device for transmitting the created message on a bus line or for receiving a message from the bus line, the communication control unit and/or the transceiver device provide an ACK time window for an ACK signal and/or a NACK time window for a NACK signal in the message to be transmitted for a signaling of whether or not at least one further user station has identified an error in the transmitted message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Florian Hartwich
  • Patent number: 11936402
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for puncturing Polar-encoded bits. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio node that utilizes a Polar encoder comprising performing Polar encoding of a plurality of bits to provide a plurality of Polar-encoded code bits and puncturing the plurality of Polar-encoded code bits using a hybrid puncturing scheme to provide a plurality of rate-matched Polar-encoded code bits, wherein the hybrid puncturing scheme uses different puncturing patterns for different code rate regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dennis Hui, Yufei Blankenship
  • Patent number: 11929763
    Abstract: Techniques are described for joint encoding and decoding of information symbols. In one embodiment, a method for joint encoding includes, in part, obtaining a sequence of information symbols, generating a plurality of cyclic codewords each corresponding to a portion of the sequence of information symbols, jointly encoding the plurality of cyclic codewords to generate at least one combined codeword, and providing the combined codeword to a device. The at least one combined codeword may be generated through Galois Fourier Transform (GFT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: WESTHOLD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu Lin, Khaled Ahmed Sabry Abdel-Ghaffar, Juane Li, Keke Liu
  • Patent number: 11929093
    Abstract: Example read channel circuits, data storage devices, and methods to provide overlapping processing of data tracks are described. The data storage device may include media configured with a plurality of tracks in a concentric or continuous pattern. The read signal for a data track may be processed using error correction codes (ECC) as it is read during a first track read operation period. Some portion of its data sectors may need additional ECC postprocessing after the first track is initially received and processed by the read channel circuit. While the read signal for a next data track is being read and processed, the read channel circuit may continue postprocessing of the portion of data sectors from the first track during the second track read operations. Various decision parameters for managing the data stream, additional postprocessing time, and rereading tracks for data recovery are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weldon M. Hanson, Niranjay Ravindran, Richard Galbraith, Iouri Oboukhov
  • Patent number: 11923026
    Abstract: A data storage system may connect a non-volatile memory to a quarantine module that generates a quarantine strategy in response to a pending data access request to the non-volatile memory. The quarantine strategy can proactively prescribing a plurality of status levels for physical data addresses of the non-volatile memory. A comparison of a volume of errors for the non-volatile memory to a first threshold of the quarantine strategy with the quarantine module may prompt the alteration of a first status level of the plurality of status levels for a first physical data address of the non-volatile memory, as directed by the quarantine strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy B. Goolsby, Ryan J. Goss, Indrajit Prakash Zagade, Thomas V. Spencer, Jeffrey J. Pream, Christopher A. Smith, Charles McJilton
  • Patent number: 11921576
    Abstract: A memory device is disclosed that includes a row of storage locations that form plural columns. The plural columns include data columns to store data and a tag column to store tag information associated with error locations in the data columns. Each data column is associated with an error correction location including an error code bit location. Logic retrieves and stores the tag information associated with the row in response to activation of the row. A bit error in an accessed data column is repaired by a spare bit location based on the tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Brent Steven Haukness
  • Patent number: 11907560
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for code word formats and structures are described. A code word format and structure may include various fields that facilitate a reliable transaction of user data during an access operation associated with a memory medium. For example, the bit fields may include information directed to an error control operation for a port manager to perform on a code word configured in accordance with the code word format and structure. Additionally, the code word format and structure may be configured for low latency operation and reliable transaction of the user data during the access operation. For example, the port manager may receive a first portion of the code word and parse the first portion of the code word concurrently with receiving an additional portion of the code word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Thomas Pawlowski
  • Patent number: 11892508
    Abstract: A joint test action group transmission system includes a host terminal and a slave terminal. The slave terminal includes a test access port (TAP) circuit, an internal memory, and a memory interface controller. The TAP circuit includes a test data register set. The memory interface controller stores the data received from the TAP circuit to the internal memory. The host terminal transmits a set of download instruction bits to the TAP circuit to have the TAP circuit select the test data register set, and have the TAP circuit enter a data shift status to receive a data package through the test data register set. During the process of receiving the data package, the TAP circuit remains in the data shift status to receive the address and at least one piece of data stored in the data package continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Tung Lin, Yuefeng Chen
  • Patent number: 11892907
    Abstract: In general, according to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory device including a memory cell; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive first data from the memory cell in a first data reading; receive second data from the memory cell in a second data reading that is different from the first data reading; convert a first value that is based on the first data and the second data, to a second value in accordance with a first relationship; and convert the first value to a third value in accordance with a second relationship that is different from the first relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Tokutomi, Masanobu Shirakawa, Marie Takada, Masamichi Fujiwara, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Naoaki Kokubun, Tatsuro Hitomi, Hironori Uchikawa
  • Patent number: 11892504
    Abstract: Systems and methods of debugging a design under test for metastability issues using formal verification. In one aspect, the method includes determining, by a server, that a functionality of the DUT failed an assertion; generating, by the server, a plurality of first waveforms for a plurality of clock domain crossing (CDC) pairs that are in a cone of influence of the assertion; applying, by the server, a constraint including a condition to the plurality of waveforms; and generating, by the server, one or more second waveforms for a first subset of the plurality of CDC pairs, wherein the first subset of the CDC pairs satisfied the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Arias Drake, Bijitendra Mittra, Keyliane da Silva Fernandes Silvano
  • Patent number: 11894091
    Abstract: A system, program product, and method for processing synchronized memory repairs. The method includes identifying a faulty memory row from a plurality of functioning memory rows in a memory array. The method also includes executing memory row repair operations directed toward the faulty memory row and identifying a repair row to operationally replace the faulty memory row. The method also includes creating a multiple hot state within a memory decoder. The memory decoder includes logic circuitry for executing operation of the plurality of functioning memory rows. The method further includes activating a wordline of the identified repair row through the multiple hot state, and executing one or more memory operations on the identified repair row though the memory decoder. Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed herein facilitate synchronization of the repair row and functioning memory rows within the memory array, as well as any associated peripheral signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yaron Freiman, Noam Jungmann, Tomer Abraham Cohen, Elazar Kachir, Hezi Shalom
  • Patent number: 11881275
    Abstract: Systems of screening memory cells of a memory include modulating bitline and/or wordline voltage. In a read operation, the wordline may be overdriven or underdriven with respect to a nominal operating voltage on the wordline. In a write operation, one or both of the bitline and wordline may be overdriven or underdriven with respect to corresponding a nominal operating voltage. Such a system has margin control circuity, which may be in the form of bitline and wordline margin controls, to modulate bitline and wordline voltages, respectively, in the memory cells of the memory array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Francisco Adolfo Cano, Devanathan Varadarajan, Anthony Martin Hill
  • Patent number: 11880277
    Abstract: Selecting an error correction code type for a memory device includes: selecting, by the memory device in dependence upon predefined selection criteria, one of a plurality of error correction code types and carrying out memory access requests utilizing the selected error correction code type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Vilas Sridharan