Patents by Inventor Amit Alon

Amit Alon 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).

  • Publication number: 20250117160
    Abstract: In addition to transmitting over the ASIC-NAND bus the legacy long command format, a data storage device will be able to use also a compressed/improved command format. The alternate command's format is hidden from most parts of the NAND. The NAND can have a layer that will translate compressed/non standard commands to the legacy (standard) format for use by the rest of the NAND device's logic, as currently implemented. According to selected command format, the Low Level Flow Sequencer (LLFS) sequence generator and the flash interface module (FIM) will know which format to use in order to encode the command's content for transmission to the NAND by the FIM/ASIC/controller. The command is then executed on the NAND side according to the selected command scheme. Changes will be applied in the device controller on the ASIC side—to encode the command, and on the NAND side—to decode the command according to the selected format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit ALON, Moshe KARNI, Shay BENISTY
  • Publication number: 20250117135
    Abstract: According to the selected command format mode, the same opcode of existing commands will now be able to be sent using a new command format that will compress the large command and achieve the same functionality as the original large command. Examples of such include address compression, repeated fields, unnecessary known fields, etc. Instead of a long address being sent across the ASIC-NAND bus, the address sent over the bus will be represented using less bits with lower granularity. The controller will not send known repeated elements e.g. of the long address in the new format utilizing the compressed command such that the address can be transmitted only once instead of several times per each command. The new format will not include parts of the commands that are defined by the standard when it is possible to eliminate their transmission. The new command format will have two or more supported versions some of the commands, allowing introduction of new flexibility and improved performance of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit ALON, Moshe KARNI, Shay BENISTY
  • Patent number: 9430782
    Abstract: Advertisements in a social networking system may be targeted to searching users in relation with a real-time search engine operated by a social networking system. Ads are targeted to users based in part on social information included in a structured search query and/or search results on a page. In a typeahead search, a user of the social networking system may receive prefix search results of objects in the search box. The prefix search results are ranked by relevance to the user, and advertisers may bid for particular objects to increase their ranking in the results list. An option may be provided to a viewer of search query results to buy an ad that would be seen by other users who performed the same search query, received a targeted search result, or based on targeting criteria as determined by the viewer bidding on the ad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Alon, Gregory Joseph Badros
  • Publication number: 20140172565
    Abstract: Advertisements in a social networking system may be targeted to searching users in relation with a real-time search engine operated by a social networking system. Ads are targeted to users based in part on social information included in a structured search query and/or search results on a page. In a typeahead search, a user of the social networking system may receive prefix search results of objects in the search box. The prefix search results are ranked by relevance to the user, and advertisers may bid for particular objects to increase their ranking in the results list. An option may be provided to a viewer of search query results to buy an ad that would be seen by other users who performed the same search query, received a targeted search result, or based on targeting criteria as determined by the viewer bidding on the ad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Alon, Gregory Joseph Badros
  • Publication number: 20140172564
    Abstract: Advertisements in a social networking system may be targeted to searching users in relation with a real-time search engine operated by a social networking system. Ads are targeted to users based in part on social information included in a structured search query and/or search results on a page. In a typeahead search, a user of the social networking system may receive prefix search results of objects in the search box. The prefix search results are ranked by relevance to the user, and advertisers may bid for particular objects to increase their ranking in the results list. An option may be provided to a viewer of search query results to buy an ad that would be seen by other users who performed the same search query, received a targeted search result, or based on targeting criteria as determined by the viewer bidding on the ad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Alon, Gregory Joseph Badros