Patents Examined by Scott C Sun
  • Patent number: 11741024
    Abstract: A synchronizer that can generate pipeline (e.g., FIFO, LIFO) status in a single step without intermediate synchronization. The status can be an indicator of whether a pipeline is full, empty, almost full, or almost empty. The synchronizer (also referred to as a double-sync or ripple-based pipeline status synchronizer) can be used with any kind of clock crossing pipeline and all kinds of pointer encodings. The double-sync and ripple-based pipeline status synchronizers eliminate costly validation and semi-manual timing closure, suggests better performance and testability, and have lower area and power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Leon Zlotnik, Jeremy Anderson, Lev Zlotnik, Daniel Ballegeer
  • Patent number: 11741034
    Abstract: A memory device is configured to communicate with a plurality of host devices, through an interconnect, and includes a memory including a plurality of memory regions that includes a first memory region that is assigned to a first host device and a second memory region that is assigned to a second host device. The memory device further includes a direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to, based on a request from the first host device, the request including a copy command to copy data that is stored in the first memory region to the second memory region, read the stored data from the first memory region, and write the read data to the second memory region without outputting the read data to the interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heehyun Nam, Jeongho Lee, Wonseb Jeong, Ipoom Jeong, Hyeokjun Choe
  • Patent number: 11734201
    Abstract: In a control system including one or more control nodes and one or more I/O nodes connected to one or more devices and communicable with the control nodes, the control nodes execute at least one control program on a first OS, and the I/O nodes execute at least one I/O program on a second OS with higher punctuality. The control program generates a control command based on state control set in advance for the device and transmits the control command to the I/O node. The I/O program stores the control command received from the control node in a storage unit, and executes processing related to the device according to the control command stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Onishi, Yusaku Otsuka, Tatsuya Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11728555
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a memory, a processor, and a rectangular waveguide coupled to the memory and the processor so that the memory and the processor communicate with each other via the rectangular waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihito Koya
  • Patent number: 11726793
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a plurality of processing resources including a first processing resource and a second processing resource, a memory communicatively coupled to the first processing resource and the second processing resource, and a processor to receive data dependencies for one or more tasks comprising one or more producer tasks executing on the first processing resource and one or more consumer tasks executing on the second processing resource and move a data output from one or more producer tasks executing on the first processing resource to a cache memory communicatively coupled to the second processing resource. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Prasoonkumar Surti, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Adam T. Lake, Jill Boyce, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Lidong Xu, James M. Holland, Vasanth Ranganathan, Nikos Kaburlasos, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11726925
    Abstract: Systems and methods of implementing a mixed-signal integrated circuit includes sourcing, by a reference signal source, a plurality of analog reference signals along a shared signal communication path to a plurality of local accumulators; producing an electrical charge, at each of the plurality of local accumulators, based on each of the plurality of analog reference signals; adding or subtracting, by each of the plurality of local accumulators, the electrical charge to an energy storage device of each of the plurality of local accumulators over a predetermined period; summing along the shared communication path the electrical charge from the energy storage device of each of the plurality of local accumulators at an end of the predetermined period; and generating an output based on a sum of the electrical charge from each of the plurality of local accumulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mythic, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Fick, Manar El-Chammas, Skylar Skrzyniarz, David Fick
  • Patent number: 11726533
    Abstract: A data storage library system includes a data storage library, at least one environmental conditioning unit, at least one data storage drive retained within the data storage library, and at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the data storage library. The system also includes a library controller, wherein the library controller is configured to initiate a service mode prior to and during a service procedure performed within the data storage library, and further wherein at least one operational state within the at least one data storage drive is changed during the service mode. The change in the at least one operational state may be, for example, an increase in temperature within the at least one data storage drive, or the insertion of a data storage cartridge into the at least one data storage drive during the service mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest S. Gale, Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard G. Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave, Lee C. Randall
  • Patent number: 11720512
    Abstract: Unified systems and methods for interchip and intrachip node communication are disclosed. In one aspect, a single unified low-speed bus is provided that connects each of the chips within a computing device. The chips couple to the bus through a physical layer interface and associated gateway. The gateway includes memory that stores a status table summarizing statuses for every node in the interface fabric. As nodes experience state changes, the nodes provide updates to associated local gateways. The local gateways then message, using a scout message, remote gateways with information relating to the state changes. When a first node is preparing a signal to a second node, the first node checks the status table at the associated local gateway to determine a current status for the second node. Based on the status of the second node, the first node may send the message or take other appropriate action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, Maxime Leclercq, George Alan Wiley
  • Patent number: 11704275
    Abstract: A device connected by a link to a host system can include a first port to receive a capability configuration message across a link and a message request receiving logic comprising hardware circuitry to identify a capability of the device identified in the capability configuration message, determine that the capability is to be presented or hidden from operation based on a capability hide enable bit in the capability configuration message, and configure a capability linked list to present or hide the capability based on the determination. The device can also include a message response generator logic comprising hardware circuitry to generate a response message indicating that the capability is to be presented or hidden from operation. The device can include a second port to transmit the response message across the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kuan Hua Tan, Eng Hun Ooi, Ang Li
  • Patent number: 11687276
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for streaming arbitrarily large amounts of data through computational storage programs of a computational storage device. A computational storage device comprises a storage media, a computational storage processor, and a controller. A firmware of the controller comprises a plurality of streaming drivers, each associated with a data source or data destination of the storage device. The firmware further comprises a buffer abstraction layer operable to read data from a data source through an associated ingress streaming driver of the plurality of streaming drivers to provide a source data stream for a computational storage program executing on the computational storage processor. The buffer abstraction layer is further operable to receive a destination data stream from the computational storage program and write data to a data destination through an associated egress streaming driver of the plurality of streaming drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Marc Timothy Jones
  • Patent number: 11687467
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing device and method. The information processing device includes a storage module a storage module configured to acquire information data, wherein the information data including at least one key feature and the storage module pre-storing true confidence corresponding to the key feature; an operational circuit configured to determine predicted confidence corresponding to the key feature according to the information data and judge whether the predicted confidence of the key feature exceeds a preset threshold value range of the true confidence corresponding to the key feature or not; a controlling circuit configured to control the storage module to modify the key feature or send out a modification signal to the outside when the predicted confidence exceeds the preset threshold value of the true confidence. The information processing device of the disclosure can automatically correct and modify handwriting, text, image or video actions instead of artificial method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tianshi Chen, Shuai Hu, Yifan Hao, Yufeng Gao
  • Patent number: 11687358
    Abstract: A virtualization platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is provided. The virtualization platform may include a host processor coupled to an acceleration coprocessor. The acceleration coprocessor may be a reconfigurable integrated circuit to help provide improved flexibility and agility for the NFV. The coprocessor may include multiple virtual function hardware acceleration modules each of which is configured to perform a respective accelerator function. A virtual machine running on the host processor may wish to perform multiple accelerator functions in succession at the coprocessor on a given data. In one suitable arrangement, intermediate data output by each of the accelerator functions may be fed back to the host processor. In another suitable arrangement, the successive function calls may be chained together so that only the final resulting data is fed back to the host processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Abdel Hafiz Rabi, Allen Chen, Mark Jonathan Lewis, Jiefan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11681451
    Abstract: A storage device and method of controlling a storage device are disclosed. The storage device includes a host, a logic die, and a high bandwidth memory stack including a memory die. A computation lookup table is stored on a memory array of the memory die. The host sends a command to perform an operation utilizing a kernel and a plurality of input feature maps, includes finding the product of a weight of the kernel and values of multiple input feature maps. The computation lookup table includes a row corresponding to a weight of the kernel, and a column corresponding to a value of the input feature maps. A result value stored at a position corresponding to a row and a column is the product of the weight corresponding to the row and the value corresponding to the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Gu, Krishna T. Malladi, Hongzhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11682447
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for input receiver circuits and receiver masks for electronic memory are disclosed. Embodiments of the disclosure include memory receiver masks having shapes other than rectangular shapes. For example, a receiver mask according to some embodiments of the disclosure may have a hexagonal shape. Other shapes of receiver masks may also be included in other embodiments of the disclosure. Circuits, timing, and operating parameters for achieving non-rectangular and various shapes of receiver mask are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean D. Gans, John D. Porter
  • Patent number: 11683155
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for validating data stored in memory using cryptographic hashes. An embodiment includes a memory, and circuitry configured to divide the memory into a plurality of segments, wherein each respective segment is associated with a different cryptographic hash, validate, during a powering of the memory, data stored in each respective one of a first number of the plurality of segments using the cryptographic hash associated with that respective segment, and validate, after the powering of the memory, data stored in a second number of the plurality of segments, data stored in each respective one of a second number of the plurality of segments using the cryptographic hash associated with that respective segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Troia, Antonino Mondello
  • Patent number: 11669327
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a computing device and a method for loading data. According to the method, the first processing unit sends a first instruction to the NMP unit. The first instruction includes a first address, a plurality of second addresses, and an operation type. In response to the first instruction, the NMP unit performs operations associated with the operation type on multiple data items on the multiple second addresses of the first memory, so as to generate the operation result. The NMP unit stores the operation result to the first address of the first memory. The first processing unit issues a flush instruction to make the operation result on the first address visible to the first processing unit. The first processing unit issues a read instruction to read the operation result on the first address to the first processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Biren Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhou Hong, YuFei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11665846
    Abstract: A modular I/O system for an industrial automation network includes a network adapter including first and second adapter modules, wherein each adapter module is configured for connection with an industrial network. The I/O system further includes a first I/O device with first and second I/O modules each configured for operative connection to a controlled system for input/output of data with respect to the controlled system. The I/O system further includes first and second independent backplane data networks that connect each of the first and second adapter modules to each of the first and second I/O modules. The network adapter includes first and second removable backplane network switches and the first I/O device includes third and fourth removable backplane network switches that establish the backplane networks. The backplane network switches can be Ethernet gigabit switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel E. Killian, Sivaram Balasubramanian, Kendal R. Harris, Chandresh R. Chaudhari
  • Patent number: 11662936
    Abstract: A system and method comprising: receiving a request to write data stored at a first range of a first volume to a second range of a second volume, where first metadata for the first range of the first volume is associated with a range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and responsive to receiving the request: creating second metadata for the second range of the second volume, wherein the second metadata is associated with the range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and associating the second volume with the second metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Ethan Miller, Jianting Cao, John Colgrove, Christopher Golden, John Hayes, Cary Sandvig, Grigori Inozemtsev
  • Patent number: 11665912
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a semiconductor memory structured to include a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the plurality of memory cells may comprise: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; and a selection element layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer to electrically couple or decouple an electrical connection between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer based on a magnitude of an applied voltage or an applied current with respect to a threshold magnitude, wherein the selection element layer has a dopant concentration profile which decreases from an interface between the selection element layer and the first electrode layer toward an interface between the selection element layer and the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Jung Ha, Jeong Hwan Song
  • Patent number: 11656872
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes a plurality of columns of weight registers and a plurality of inputs configured to receive a first plurality of values and a second plurality of values. The first plurality of values is stored in the plurality of columns of weight registers after being received. In a first mode of operation, the first and second pluralities of values are received via a first portion of the plurality of inputs. In a second mode of operation, the first plurality of values is received via a second portion of the plurality of inputs, and the second plurality of values is received via the first portion of the plurality of inputs. Additionally, the DSP block includes a plurality of multipliers configured to simultaneously multiply each value of the first plurality of values by each value of the second plurality of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Langhammer