Patents Examined by Tammara R. Peyton
  • Patent number: 11537536
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11539537
    Abstract: A chassis front-end is disclosed. The chassis front-end may include a switchboard including an Ethernet switch, a Baseboard Management Controller, and a mid-plane connector. The chassis front-end may also include a mid-plane including at least one storage device connector and a speed logic to inform at least one storage device of an Ethernet speed of the chassis front-end. The Ethernet speeds may vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 11533311
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses where a controller can automatically manage a physical infrastructure of a computer system based on a plurality of system rules, a system state for the computer system, and a plurality of templates. Techniques for automatically adding resources such as computer, storage, and/or networking resources to the computer system are described. Also described are techniques for automatically deploying applications and services on such resources. These techniques provide a scalable computer system that can serve as a turnkey scalable private cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Net-Thunder, LLC
    Inventors: Parker John Schmitt, Sean Michael Richardson, Neil Benjamin Semmel, Cameron Tyler Spry
  • Patent number: 11527269
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system includes an energy source and an integrated circuit that is coupled to one or more memory devices via a plurality of memory channels. A memory controller in the integrated circuit is programmable with a plurality of identifiers corresponding to the plurality of channels, and is further programmable with a command and a first identifier associated with the command. Responsive to the command, the memory controller is configured to perform one or more calibrations on a subset of the plurality of channels for which corresponding identifiers of the plurality of identifiers match the first identifier. Other ones of the plurality of channels, for which the corresponding identifiers do not match the first identifier, do not perform the calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Jeter, Rakesh L. Notani, Alma L. Juarez Dominguez
  • Patent number: 11520596
    Abstract: A storage device for booting a host computing device includes a first storage memory region having a first storage memory controller, a second storage memory region having a second storage memory controller, and a resilient boot controller. The resilient boot controller is configured to store boot code in the first storage memory region, prevent write access by the host computing device through the first storage memory controller to the first storage memory region, detect a reset of the host computing device through the input/output interface, copy at least a portion of the boot code from the first storage memory region to the second storage memory region, responsive to detection of the reset of the host computing device, and enable read access of the copied boot code by the host computing device through the second storage memory controller of the second storage memory region, responsive to the copy operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Thom, Paul England, Robert Karl Spiger, Brian Telfer, Sangho Lee, Marcus Peinado
  • Patent number: 11520483
    Abstract: A controller is included in a storage device communicating with a host device. The controller is configured to receive a firmware image download command and a firmware image corresponding to the firmware image download command from the host device, perform verification for determining whether the firmware image is damaged in response to the received firmware image download command, and when a firmware update request for the firmware image is received from the host device, determine whether to perform a firmware update based on the firmware image by using a verification result of the firmware image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soohwan Kang, Jaesub Kim, Jeongbeom Seo
  • Patent number: 11520721
    Abstract: A digital interface circuit includes a queue block configured to be coupled between an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller of a processor, where the queue block comprises a command buffer and is configured to: receive a first command from the DMA controller; store the first command in the command buffer; modify the first command in accordance with first control bits of the first command to generate a modified first command; and send the modified first command to the ADC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V., STMICROELECTRONICS APPLICATION GMBH
    Inventors: Nirav Prashantkumar Trivedi, Sandip Atal, Rolf Nandlinger
  • Patent number: 11513986
    Abstract: To improve data throughput and data transfer rate, a contiguous block of host memory can be allocated for data transfers between the host system and an integrated circuit device such as a peripheral component. By using a contiguous block of memory that acts as a circular buffer, the memory address field of memory descriptors can be eliminated because the host system only need to inform the data movement engine of the length of each data transfer. The data movement engine can maintain pointers to keep track of the memory address in the host memory to read from and write to. After each data transfer, the relevant pointer can be incremented by a value corresponding to the length indicated in the memory descriptor for the transfer. As such, it is not necessary for the host system to provide the data movement engine with the memory address of each transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Asif Khan
  • Patent number: 11497426
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one electrode, having a first potential, arranged to sense a biosignal; a conductive shield provided over the at least one electrode where the conductive shield is configured to be driven to a second potential wherein the second potential is equivalent to the first potential plus a multiple of an inverted common mode voltage; and wherein the conductive shield is coupled to a drain to enable triboelectric charges to be dissipated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Kim Blomqvist
  • Patent number: 11494869
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for storing an image frame in a memory, including: receiving the image frame; dividing the image frame into M rows of data block rows along a first direction; dividing each of the M rows of data block rows into N data blocks along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; performing a compression operation upon each of the M*N data blocks individually to generate M*N compressed data blocks; and storing N compressed data blocks corresponding to the 1st data block row of the M data block rows and N compressed data blocks corresponding to the (P+1)th data block row of the M data block rows in a continuous storage space in the memory, wherein M, N, and P are integers, and M>1, N>0 and P<M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weimin Zeng, Jeng-Shiou Lai
  • Patent number: 11494115
    Abstract: A system is provided to receive a request to write data to a storage device, wherein the data is associated with a file name and a file path. The system performs a hash function on an input based on the file name and the file path to obtain a hash value, wherein the hash function comprises a plurality of hash methods performed on the input. The system maps the hash value to a physical location in the storage device, and writes the data to the physical location in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Shu Li
  • Patent number: 11494198
    Abstract: A device may include a number of drivers, wherein each driver of the number of drivers includes a number of transistors coupled to an output node. The device may further include circuitry coupled to the number of drivers. The circuitry may configure at least one driver of the number of drivers in each of a number of configurations, wherein each configuration of the number of configurations is associated with a calibration code of a number of calibration codes. Each configuration generates, in response to signal transmission via the output node, an associated channel performance response of a number of channel performance responses. The circuitry may also store a calibration code for the at least one unit driver, wherein the calibration code generates a desired channel performance response of the number of channel performance responses. Systems and related methods of operation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hyunui Lee
  • Patent number: 11482315
    Abstract: A methodology to track patient usage of an autoinjector (AI) device, and to an external or electronic adaptor (eAdaptor) adapted to be used with the AI are disclosed. The eAdaptor contains sensors (including but not limited to a temperature sensor, a sound sensor, a vibration sensor and a magnetic sensor system), a display, a microprocessor, a real time clock, and communication systems that enables the eAdaptor to capture and confirm autoinjector (AI) use, as well as injection information, and transmit such information wirelessly to a smart phone or any other data receiving system or device. Also disclosed are an internal logic to operate the eAdaptor and a smart device APP that pairs with the internal logic to guide the patients with graphical user interface (GUI) displays on the smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIMMUNE, LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Song, Janardhanan Anand Subramony
  • Patent number: 11474885
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for caching identifiers for access commands are described. A memory sub-system can receive an access command to perform an access operation on a transfer unit of the memory sub-system. The memory sub-system can store an identifier associated with the access command in a memory component and can generate an internal command using a first core of the memory sub-system. In some embodiments, the memory sub-system can store the identifier in a shared memory that is accessible by the first core and can issue the internal command to perform the access operation on the memory sub-system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Traver, Jay R. Shoen
  • Patent number: 11471597
    Abstract: Methods and systems for utilizing co-simulation of a physical model and a self-adaptive predictive controller using hybrid automata are described. For example, there is disclosed a self-adaptive predictive control system to generate an initial patient model with initial patient model settings (k1, k2, . . . , kn) and execute a program that takes as input, the initial patient model settings as configuration parameters that specify at least a plurality of initial states. Such a system further receives new patient inputs and generates hybrid automata as a variation of the initial states by applying the new patient inputs to the initial patient model. The system further derives reachable states from the hybrid automata and outputs all reachable states computed. The system further detects changes and responsively generates a new patient predictive model with new parameter settings (k?1, k?2, . . . , k?n), iteratively repeating until a termination criterion is satisfied. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Imane Lamrani, Ayan Banerjee, Sandeep Gupta
  • Patent number: 11472665
    Abstract: To provide an elevator car position detection sensor capable of suppressing erroneous detection of presence or absence of a plate. The elevator car position detection sensor includes a first coil provided to one of an elevator car and a hoistway and configured to output an excitation magnetic field to a plate provided to the other of the elevator car and the hoistway; a second coil provided on an opposite side of the first coil relative to the plate; a shield wall configured to shield an end portion of the plate located closer to one of the car and the hoistway; and a determination circuit configured to determine a phase of an alternating-current voltage corresponding to a frequency of the excitation magnetic field output from the first coil at an alternating-current voltage generated across the second coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Inoue, Keita Mochizuki, Masahiro Ishikawa, Akihide Shiratsuki
  • Patent number: 11469911
    Abstract: A chassis front-end is disclosed. The chassis front-end may include a switchboard including an Ethernet switch, a Baseboard Management Controller, and a mid-plane connector. The chassis front-end may also include a mid-plane including at least one storage device connector and a speed logic to inform at least one storage device of an Ethernet speed of the chassis front-end. The Ethernet speeds may vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 11462191
    Abstract: Mechanisms for managing output of an HDMI source are provided. In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, a method for controlling output of an HDMI source is provided, the method comprising: establishing a connection between the HDMI source and an HDMI sink at a first address of a consumer electronic control bus of the HDMI sink; sending a request for an identity of the active source connected to the HDMI sink; monitoring signals on the consumer electronic control bus; receiving a message over the consumer electronic control bus identifying a second address on the consumer electronic control bus different from the first address as an address of an active source; setting a status of the HDMI source as inactive in response to receiving the message; and inhibiting output of video from the HDMI source to the HDMI sink in response to the status being set as inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Eric Jason Roberts
  • Patent number: 11449264
    Abstract: A processing device receives a command to arm a memory device for self-destruction. In response to the command, a self-destruction countdown timer is commenced. An expiry of the self-destruction countdown timer and based on detecting the expiry of the self-destruction countdown timer, data stored by the memory device is destructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Strong
  • Patent number: 11449426
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating an I/O system are disclosed. Embodiments of the present technology may include a method that involves receiving data at a NIC, caching the data at the NIC, generating a meta-identifier (meta-ID) for the data, writing the data to a host via a PCIe interface, providing the meta-ID to the host, receiving a request for a service at the NIC from the host, the request including the meta-ID, accessing the cached data in the NIC using the meta-ID, and performing the service on the cached data that was accessed in the NIC using the meta-ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Pensando Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Anish Kumar Gupta