Patents Examined by Than Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11782617
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present technology, an electronic device may include a host device including: an application requesting to write data; and a file system configured to generate, in response to the request of the application, a log regarding a property of data, and allocate a section corresponding to the data based on the log; and a storage device comprising: a memory device including a plurality of memory dies; and a memory controller configured to control the memory device to receive the data and the log of the data from the host device, and sequentially store the data in a physical zone corresponding to the section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Soon Yeal Yang
  • Patent number: 11775180
    Abstract: Disk based emulation of tape libraries is provided with features that allow easier management and administration of a backup system and also allow increased flexibility to both archive data on tape at a remote location and also have fast restore access to archived data files. Features include automatic emulation of physical libraries, and the retention and write protection of virtual tapes that correspond to exported physical tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OVERLAND STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Victoria Gonzalez, Sergio Encarnacao
  • Patent number: 11775225
    Abstract: A storage product manufactured as a computer component to facilitate network storage services. The storage product has a bus connector, a network interface, and a local storage device. A message selection configuration can be written into the storage product to control separation of incoming messages received in the network interface into first messages and third messages. The first messages are sent through the bus connector for processing by a local host system to generate second messages. The second messages and the third messages are sent to the local storage device. The local storage device processes the second messages and the third messages to implement the network storage services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Luca Bert
  • Patent number: 11768769
    Abstract: The present application presents a Uniform Memory Access (UMA) network including a cluster of UMA nodes. A system in a UMA node comprises persistent memory; non-persistent memory, a node control device operatively coupled to the persistent memory and the non-persistent memory, a local interface for interfacing with the local server in the respective UMA node, and a network interface for interfacing with the UMA network. The node control device is configured to translate between a local unified memory access (UMA) address space accessible by applications running on a local server and a global UMA address space that is mapped to a physical UMA address space. The physical UMA address space includes physical address spaces associated with different UMA nodes in the cluster of UMA nodes. Thus, a server in the UMA network can access the physical address spaces at other UMA nodes without going through the servers in the other UMA nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Netlist, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Lee, Junkil Ryu
  • Patent number: 11768632
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller of a memory system executes a first write operation of writing write data into a first storage region, in response to reception of one or more write requests for specifying a first zone from a host, during a period from execution of an erase operation of the first storage region until a first time elapses. When the first time has elapsed after execution of the erase operation, in a state in which an unwritten region having a size larger than or equal to a first size remains in the first storage region, the controller does not execute the first write operation, allocates the first storage region as a nonvolatile buffer capable of temporarily storing write data to be written to each of a plurality of zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Kanno
  • Patent number: 11762580
    Abstract: A controller manages a plurality of block groups each including one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks provided in a non-volatile memory. The controller assigns one of the plurality of block groups to each of plurality of zones. The controller writes write data which is to be written to a first zone to a shared write buffer and writes write data which is to be written to a second zone to the shared write buffer. When a total size of the write data in the first zone stored in the shared write buffer reaches a capacity of the first zone, the controller copies the write data in the first zone stored in the shared write buffer to the first block group assigned to the first zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Yoshida, Shinichi Kanno, Naoki Esaka
  • Patent number: 11748009
    Abstract: Various embodiments, methods, and systems for erasure coding with overlapped local reconstruction codes, are provided. An erasure coding scheme can be defined based on Overlapped Local Reconstruction Codes (OLRC) that achieve high storage efficiency by providing fault tolerance properties that optimize reconstruction for common cases of failures while maintaining the reconstruction costs for uncommon case of failures. In operation, a data chunk is divided into data fragments. The data fragments correspond to zones. A plurality of parity fragments is computed using the data fragments. A parity fragment is computed using a subset of the data fragments. The plurality of parity fragments are assigned to the zones comprising the data fragments, where the data fragments and the plurality of parity fragments define overlapped local construction codes having a plurality of local groups. An unavailable data fragment is recoverable from at least two local groups from the plurality of local groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhu, Yiheng Tao, Cheng Huang, Aaron William Ogus, Yilong Zhao, Terry Chen, Zhenshan Yu, Tejas Shah, Sridhar Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11748020
    Abstract: Storage redundancy may be resynchronized without determining a snapshot difference. A storage component (210) owning a volume (122) can maintain current and expected generation numbers (212, 214) based on modification requests received and modification requests that a backup component (220) acknowledges completing. The backup (220) can maintain current and expected generation numbers (222, 224) based on modification requests received and applied to a backup volume (124). If either component (210, 220) fails and later returns to service, differences between the owner's current and expected generation numbers (212, 214) and the backup's current and expected generation numbers (222, 224) indicate which modification requests may have been missed and need to be reconstructed to restore synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nebuon, Inc.
    Inventors: Siamak Nazari, Jin Wang, Jonathan McDowell, Srinivasa D. Murthy
  • Patent number: 11740820
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a storage environment are provided. One method includes identifying, by a processor, a plurality of block numbers of a fragmented address space for re-allocation, each block number associated with data stored by a file system in a storage device of a storage system; determining, by the processor, compressed data associated with a block number from among the plurality of block numbers; verifying, by the processor, that an indirect block of a hierarchical structure maintained by the file system references the block number associated with the compressed data; and copying, by the processor, the compressed data to a new block, without decompressing the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Mathankumar Devarajan, Girish Hebbale Venkatasubbaiah, Venkateswarlu Tella, Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar, Harsh Tiwari
  • Patent number: 11726707
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system receives from a host a first write request including a first block identifier designating a first write destination block to which first write data is to be written. The memory system acquires the first write data from a write buffer temporarily holding write data corresponding to each of the write requests, and writes the first write data to a write destination page in the first write destination block. The memory system releases a region in the write buffer, storing data which is made readable from the first write destination block by writ the first write data to the write destination page. The data made readable is a data of a page in the first write destination block preceding the write destination page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kanno, Hideki Yoshida, Naoki Esaka
  • Patent number: 11726912
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing wide memory operations for a wide data cache line. In some examples of the disclosed technology, a processor having two or more execution lanes includes a data cache coupled to memory, a wide memory load circuit that concurrently loads two or more words from a cache line of the data cache, and a writeback circuit situated to send a respective word of the concurrently-loaded words to a selected execution lane of the processor, either into an operand buffer or bypassing the operand buffer. In some examples, a sharding circuit is provided that allows bitwise, byte-wise, and/or word-wise manipulation of memory operation data. In some examples, wide cache loads allows for concurrent execution of plural execution lanes of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas C. Burger, Aaron L. Smith, Gagan Gupta, David T. Harper
  • Patent number: 11721404
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for operating mixed mode blocks. One example method can include tracking single level cell (SLC) mode cycles and extra level cell (XLC) mode cycles performed on the mixed mode blocks, maintaining a mixed mode cycle count corresponding to the mixed mode blocks, and adjusting the mixed mode cycle count differently for mixed mode blocks operated in a SLC mode than for mixed blocks operated in a XLC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore K. Muchherla, Ashutosh Malshe, Preston A. Thomson, Michael G. Miller, Gary F. Besinga, Scott A. Stoller, Sampath K. Ratnam, Renato C. Padilla, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 11720993
    Abstract: A processing unit includes one or more processor cores and a set of registers to store configuration information for the processing unit. The processing unit also includes a coprocessor configured to receive a request to modify a memory allocation for a kernel concurrently with the kernel executing on the at least one processor core. The coprocessor is configured to modify the memory allocation by modifying the configuration information stored in the set of registers. In some cases, initial configuration information is provided to the set of registers by a different processing unit. The initial configuration information is stored in the set of registers prior to the coprocessor modifying the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Gutierrez, Muhammad Amber Hassaan, Sooraj Puthoor
  • Patent number: 11709603
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for multi-tier write allocation. A storage system may store data within a multi-tier storage environment comprising a first storage tier (e.g., storage devices maintained by the storage system), a second storage tier (e.g., a remote object store provided by a third party storage provider), and/or other storage tiers. A determination is made that data (e.g., data of a write request received by the storage system) is to be stored within the second storage tier. The data is stored into a staging area of the first storage tier. A second storage tier location identifier, for referencing the data according to a format utilized by the second storage tier, is assigned to the data and provided to a file system hosting the data. The data is then destaged from the staging area into the second storage tier, such as within an object stored within the remote object store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Ganga Bhavani Kondapalli, Kevin Daniel Varghese, Ananthan Subramanian, Cheryl Marie Thompson, Anil Paul Thoppil
  • Patent number: 11704260
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to a memory controller, such as a host memory controller. An example apparatus can include a host memory controller coupled to a first memory device and a second memory device via a channel, wherein the host memory controller is configured to send a first number of commands to the first memory device using a first device select signal, and send a second number of commands to the second memory device using a second device select signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Hall, Jr., Robert M. Walker
  • Patent number: 11704068
    Abstract: A memory system includes a plurality of memory groups capable of performing a data input/output operation, and a controller configured to divide an operation subject to a data input/output command into at least one unit operation corresponding to the plurality of memory groups, and assign the at least one unit operation to plural queues corresponding to the respective memory groups, based on first information regarding operation statuses of the plurality of memory groups and second information regarding available resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11698862
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to three tiered hierarchical memory systems are described herein. A three tiered hierarchical memory system can leverage persistent memory to store data that is generally stored in a non-persistent memory, thereby increasing an amount of storage space allocated to a computing system at a lower cost than approaches that rely solely on non-persistent memory. An example apparatus may include a persistent memory, and one or more non-persistent memories configured to map an address associated with an input/output (I/O) device to an address in logic circuitry prior to the apparatus receiving a request from the I/O device to access data stored in the persistent memory, and map the address associated with the I/O device to an address in a non-persistent memory subsequent to the apparatus receiving the request and accessing the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay S. Ramesh, Anton Korzh, Richard C. Murphy, Scott Matthew Stephens
  • Patent number: 11698725
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for performing concurrent memory access operations for multiple memory planes are disclosed herein. An example method may include receiving first and second command and address pairs associated with first and second plane, respectively, of a memory. The method may further include, responsive to receiving the first and second command and address pairs, providing a first and second read voltages based on first and second page type determined from the first and second command and address pair. The method may further include configuring a first GAL decoder circuit to provide one of the first read voltage or a pass voltage on each GAL of a first GAL bus. The method may further include configuring a second GAL decoder circuit to provide one of the second read level voltage signal or the pass voltage signal on each GAL of a second GAL bus coupled to the second memory plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade, Toru Tanzawa
  • Patent number: 11693579
    Abstract: Application-specific prioritization of streaming data replication. Data streamed from connected devices is selectively replicated to data storage clusters based on needs of the applications being served by the data. Data characterization supports prioritized replication processing. Statistical metrics compare streaming data with estimated values to characterize the data for prioritization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manish Anand Bhide, Prateek Goyal, Seema Nagar, Pramod Vadayadiyil Raveendran, Sougata Mukherjea, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 11687269
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may determine an amount of pending data to copy over a network from a first storage system to a second storage system. Further, the computing device may determine an ingest speed based on a quantity of data received by the first storage system and a copy speed associated with one or more first computing resources associated with the first storage system. The computing device may determine an estimated time to copy at least a portion of the pending data to the second storage system to meet a data copy requirement. For instance, the estimated time may be based at least in part on the copy speed, the amount of pending data, and the ingest speed. In addition, at least one action may be performed based on the estimated time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Pablo Martinez Lerin