Patents by Inventor Alan SunTzi Shih

Alan SunTzi Shih has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8804418
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a solution benefiting from providing for a method and system to reduce the impact of read disturbance while providing improved system performance through optimized activities with minimal impact to overhead. The present invention provides for a highly effective early page migration mechanism, prior to a manufacturer's endurance limit and without a forced block migration, to reduce read disturbance associated with traditional NAND-based memory architectures, in part by identifying a block counter value, determining a block threshold value and early migrating one or more pages of data from the original block location upon the satisfaction of certain criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Suntzi Shih
  • Patent number: 5949605
    Abstract: An adaptive feedforward method of canceling and calibrating harmonic disturbances in a magnetic disk drive storage system includes expressing harmonic disturbances to the system as d(t) and expressing an output of the system as y(t). A control signal u(t) is used to cancel the harmonic disturbance d(t), where u(t) is the estimated value of d(t) such that u(t) is an estimated value of d(t). Estimated coefficients a.sub.i and b.sub.i of u(t) are updated using the derivatives of the estimated coefficients and a constant adaptation gain g.sub.i for the ith frequency component of the disturbance. The values of estimated coefficients are implemented in real time. The control signal u(t) is combined with the system output signal y(t) to cancel u(t) from y(t). The functions representing d(t), y(t), and u(t) are included in drive code for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Seong Lee, Alan SunTzi Shih, Steven Wayne Burge, Mark Andrew Pajdowski