Patents Examined by Faisal M Zaman
  • Patent number: 11977429
    Abstract: A system for controlling power settings is provided that includes a plurality of components, each component configured to implement a power control algorithm. A controller is coupled to each component and configured to control a power state of each component as a function of the power control algorithm for each component. The controller comprises a state machine having a plurality of states, wherein the power control algorithm of each component is controlled by the controller as a function of a state of the state machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri, Arun Muthaiyan, Jun Gu, Eugene Cho, Dit Charoen
  • Patent number: 11977500
    Abstract: The invention introduces a method for executing host input-output (IO) commands, performed by a processing unit of a device side, at least including: in response to different types of host IO commands, using multiple stages of a generic framework to drive a frontend interface to interact with a host side for transmitting user data read from a storage unit to the host side, and receiving user data to be programmed into the storage unit from the host side. The frontend interface includes a register, and a data line coupled to the host side. The stages of the generic framework are used to access to the register of the frontend interface and operate the data line of the frontend interface to complete interactions with the host side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
    Inventor: Shen-Ting Chiu
  • Patent number: 11972266
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for hibernating a computing cluster. An information lifecycle manager facility (ILM) is invoked to carry out movement of data from the hypervisor of a node of a computing cluster to a different storage location. Multiple nodes of the computing cluster can be hibernated until the entire computing cluster has been hibernated. The ILM observes a replication factor of the computing cluster to suppress saving multiple copies of data. A hibernation object comprising state information of a node is stored in a network-accessible storage location. The hibernation object is accessed in response to an instruction to initiate restoration of all or parts of the computing cluster. The hibernation object can be stored using first cloud computing storage infrastructure and later, can be restored to a different cloud computing infrastructure. Upon restoration, the hibernated cluster has the same state as of the time of hibernation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Parab, Dheeraj Pandey
  • Patent number: 11966350
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a computing system which is reconfigurable into different server configurations that have different numbers of sockets. For example, the computing system may include two server nodes which can be configured into either two independent servers (i.e., two 2S servers) or a single server (i.e., one 4S server). In one embodiment, the computing system includes a midplane which is connected to processor buses on the server nodes. When configured as a single server, the midplane connects the processor bus (or buses) on one of the server nodes to the processor bus or buses on the other server node. In this manner, the processors in the two server nodes can be interconnected to function as a single server. In contrast, the connections between the server nodes in the midplane are disabled when the server nodes operate as two independent servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anant Thakar, Yun Bai
  • Patent number: 11954056
    Abstract: A Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) signal interconnection method and system for a server, a computer device and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a partition mode of the server; sending a corresponding first control signal and a corresponding second control signal to each computing node according to the partition mode; controlling a channel selection of a first switch on the corresponding computing node by the corresponding first control signal and controlling a channel selection of a second switch on the corresponding computing node by the corresponding second control signal; and transmitting PECI signals of the corresponding computing node through channels connected by the first switch and channels connected by the second switch. According to the described solution, interconnection routing of the PECI signals in a single-partition mode and a dual-partition mode may be achieved by using only one backplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangtao Kong
  • Patent number: 11947973
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a system that may include a first computing device that may perform a plurality of data processing operations and a second computing device that may receive a modification to one or more components of a first data operation, identify a first subset of the plurality of data processing operations that corresponds to the one or more components, and determine one or more alternate parameters associated with the one or more components. The second computing device may then identify a second subset of the plurality of data processing operations that corresponds to the one or more alternate parameters and send a notification to the first computing device indicative of a modification to the first subset and the second subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Oscar Guerra, Megan Sarah Jennings
  • Patent number: 11943574
    Abstract: Each of wearable terminals includes a terminal time correction unit configured to correct terminal time of a terminal clock unit based on time data externally acquired, a terminal data generation unit configured to generate terminal data at a predetermined data generation time interval counted based on an output signal of an oscillation circuit, and a data transmission/reception unit configured to transmit the terminal data to an analysis apparatus. The analysis apparatus includes a terminal data correction unit configured to correct, for each of the wearable terminals, terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data received from each of the wearable terminals. The terminal data correction unit corrects the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data in such a way that intervals between the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data become even on the time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hikaru Sugata
  • Patent number: 11934245
    Abstract: A method is disclosed to estimate energy consumed by a component in a microcontroller during operation including identifying “event” activities, where the energy consumed by the component may be determined by the number of events executed by the component, and “duration” activities, where the energy consumed may be determined by the duration of time required to execute of the activity, and determining the energy consumed by the component based on the number of events/duration of time and an energy coefficient which corresponds to the amount of energy consumed by the component to execute the activity, under given operating conditions. In an embodiment, data transfers at a bus interface may represent event activities. Apparatus to estimate the energy consumed is disclosed including bus monitors to receive signals representing data transfers at a bus interface and provide signals indicating the number of data transfers executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Wiencke, Hans Van Antwerpen, Stephan Rosner, Roland Richter, Jean-Paul Vanitegem, Jan-Willem Van de Waerdt
  • Patent number: 11934662
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for managing a removable solid state storage system for data loss prevention. A method may include maintaining a standby mode for a timer of the removable solid state storage system until the removable solid state storage system is disconnected from an external power supply, setting an operation time interval on the timer, using the timer to count how long the removable solid state storage system has been disconnected, sending an interrupt to a storage controller of the removable solid state storage system from the timer when the timer counts to the operation time Interval, and performing data loss prevention operations using a power supplied by a removable battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Innogrit Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Zhao, Wei Jiang, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11928075
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data and command through an RS232 serial port incorporated with a user-end device and a server-end device connected through the RS232 serial port is disclosed and includes following steps: accumulating a value of a first counter of the user-end device and a value of a second counter of the server-end device whenever a data is transmitted from the server-end device to the user-end device; controlling the server-end device to stop transmitting the data and to wait when both of the two values reach a triggering threshold; controlling the user-end device to transmit a control command to the server-end device through the RS232 serial port while the server-end device is waiting; and, resetting the first and the second counter and controlling the server-end device to restore to transmit the data to the user-end device after a waiting time is elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Yung-Liang Chang
  • Patent number: 11928479
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing persistence in workspaces are described. The system for managing workspaces includes computer-executable instructions for instantiating a workspace in response to receiving a login request, creating a base OS layer in the workspace, and installing one or more applications onto the base OS layer in which the applications have been installed on the workspace of a previous login session. The system may then virtually map application data to the memory of the workspace to be used by the applications in which the application data was generated by the applications during the previous login session of the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Anantha K. Boyapalle, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
  • Patent number: 11921656
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a heterogeneous computing environment that may be controlled, at least in part, by a task scheduler in which the heterogeneous computing environment may include a processing unit having fixed logical circuits configured to execute instructions; a reprogrammable processing unit having reprogrammable logical circuits configured to execute instructions that include instructions to control processing-in-memory functionality; and a stack of high-bandwidth memory dies in which each may be configured to store data and to provide processing-in-memory functionality controllable by the reprogrammable processing unit such that the reprogrammable processing unit is at least partially stacked with the high-bandwidth memory dies. The task scheduler may be configured to schedule computational tasks between the processing unit, and the reprogrammable processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Krishna T. Malladi, Hongzhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11922297
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of providing AI accelerator access as a service at the edge. In some embodiments an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator device identifier is transmitted to register an AI accelerator with the AI broker service. An AI processing request for the AI accelerator is received from a networked computing device. A bus redirect of the AI accelerator to the networked device is enabled. An AI workload is performed controlled by the networked device through the bus redirect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun Chen, Hong Yue, Yinghua Chen, Yuxin Kou, Shreekanta Das
  • Patent number: 11921663
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a USB interface switching method. The electronic apparatus includes: a first control component corresponding to a first operating system, a second control component corresponding to a second operating system, a USB interface, and a USB interface switching circuit. The first control component is used to detect the data transmission state between the USB interface and the first control component. The second control component is used to detect the data transmission state between the USB interface and the second control component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: K-TRONICS (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zejian Hu
  • Patent number: 11914538
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus that selects a first packet from a plurality of packets stored in a buffer and transfers the first packet. The semiconductor apparatus switches a plurality of different conditions for grouping the plurality of packets according to a priority order of the plurality of conditions; and selects the first packet from a plurality of packets pertaining to a group extracted on a condition selected by the switching according to a given selecting scheme, and transfers the first packet from the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takahiro Shikibu
  • Patent number: 11907004
    Abstract: A transmitter device includes a configurable timer circuit that adjusts timing of input data for serial transmission of the input data. The configurable timer circuit may be configured depending on the configured data rate of the transmitter device. In one embodiment, the configurable timer circuit includes a plurality of configurable retimers that retime the input data where at least a portion of one of the plurality of configurable retimers is enabled based on the configured data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ETOPUS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Tze Yin Cheung, Paul K. Lai, Danfeng Xu
  • Patent number: 11899602
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a host system, a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system, and a network interface controller including a network interface controller storage resource. The management controller may be configured to: receive, from the host system, a first identifier that is specific to an operating system (OS) of the host system; compare the first identifier to a second identifier provided by the network interface controller, wherein the second identifier is specific to an OS of the network interface controller that is stored on the network interface controller storage resource; and in response to a mismatch between the first identifier and the second identifier, prevent the network interface controller from operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Deepaganesh Paulraj, Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri, Lee E. Ballard
  • Patent number: 11900131
    Abstract: Techniques comprise receiving results from one or more configuration checks performed on one or more elements of an information processing system, wherein the results are received from a set of one or more interfaces of the information processing system and comprise an indication of detection of a configuration issue with at least a portion of the one or more elements of the information processing system. The method generates one or more remediation actions based on at least a portion of the received results, and then causes initiation of the one or more remediation actions within the information processing system at least in part through the set of one or more interfaces of the information processing system from which the results are received to effectuate remediation of the configuration issue with the portion of the one or more elements of the information processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: John Moran, Anurag Sharma, Christopher Trudel
  • Patent number: 11886263
    Abstract: A signal re-driving device, a data storage system and a mode control method are provided. The method includes the following steps. A first signal is received via a receiving circuit of the signal re-driving device. An analog signal feature is detected the receiving circuit. A first mode is entered according to the analog signal feature. The first signal is modulated and a second signal is outputted in the first mode. The second signal is sent via a sending circuit of the signal re-driving device. A digital signal feature is detected via the receiving circuit. And, the first mode is switched to a second mode according to the digital signal feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Po-Jung Chou, Sheng-Wen Chen, Chung-Kuang Chen
  • Patent number: 11874792
    Abstract: A method for providing a high-speed data communication between a host and field-programmable gate array (“FPGA”) is disclosed. The method, in one embodiment, is capable of identifying a data rate on a bus containing a P-channel and an N-channel operable to transmit signals in accordance with a high-speed Universal Serial Bus (“USB”) protocol. Upon sampling, by a first input deserializer, first two samples of data signals carried by the P-channel in accordance with a first clock signals clocking twice as fast as the data rate of the P-channel, a second input deserializer is used to sample the second two samples of data signals transmitted by the N-channel in accordance with a second clock signal running twice as fast as the data rate of the N-channel with a ninety (90) degree phase shift. The method subsequently forwards the data signals to one or more configurable logic blocks (“LBs”) in FPGA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Gowin Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Grant Thomas Jennings