Patents by Inventor Bernaard Metzler

Bernaard Metzler 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).

  • Local direct storage class memory access
    Patent number: 9311230
    Abstract: A queued, byte addressed system and method for accessing flash memory and other non-volatile storage class memory, and potentially other types of non-volatile memory (NVM) storage systems. In a host device, e.g., a standalone or networked computer, having attached NVM device storage integrated into a switching fabric wherein the NVM device appears as an industry standard OFED™ RDMA verbs provider. The verbs provider enables communicating with a ‘local storage peer’ using the existing OpenFabrics RDMA host functionality. User applications issue RDMA Read/Write directives to the ‘local peer (seen as a persistent storage) in NVM enabling NVM memory access at byte granularity. The queued, byte addressed system and method provides for Zero copy NVM access. The methods enables operations that establish application private Queue Pairs to provide asynchronous NVM memory access operations at byte level granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Blake G. Fitch, Michele M. Franceschini, Lars Schneidenbach, Bernaard Metzler
  • LOCAL DIRECT STORAGE CLASS MEMORY ACCESS
    Publication number: 20140317336
    Abstract: A queued, byte addressed system and method for accessing flash memory and other non-volatile storage class memory, and potentially other types of non-volatile memory (NVM) storage systems. In a host device, e.g., a standalone or networked computer, having attached NVM device storage integrated into a switching fabric wherein the NVM device appears as an industry standard OFED™ RDMA verbs provider. The verbs provider enables communicating with a ‘local storage peer’ using the existing OpenFabrics RDMA host functionality. User applications issue RDMA Read/Write directives to the ‘local peer (seen as a persistent storage) in NVM enabling NVM memory access at byte granularity. The queued, byte addressed system and method provides for Zero copy NVM access. The methods enables operations that establish application private Queue Pairs to provide asynchronous NVM memory access operations at byte level granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Blake G. Fitch, Michele M. Franceschini, Lars Schneidenbach, Bernaard Metzler