Patents by Inventor Brett Kenneth Dodds

Brett Kenneth Dodds 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: 11726909
    Abstract: A memory controller maintains a mapping of target ranges in system memory space interleaved two-ways across locations in a three-rank environment. For each range of the target ranges, the mapping comprises a two-way interleaving of the range across two ranks of the three-rank environment and offsets from base locations in the two ranks. At least one of the ranges has offsets that differ relative to each other. Such offsets allow the three ranks to be fully interleaved, two ways. An instruction to read data at a rank-agnostic location in the diverse-offset range causes the memory controller to map the rank-agnostic location to two interleaved locations offset different amounts from their respective base locations in their ranks. The controller may then affect the transfer of the data at the two interleaved locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Kenneth Dodds, Monish Shantilal Shah
  • Publication number: 20220350737
    Abstract: A memory controller maintains a mapping of target ranges in system memory space interleaved two-ways across locations in a three-rank environment. For each range of the target ranges, the mapping comprises a two-way interleaving of the range across two ranks of the three-rank environment and offsets from base locations in the two ranks. At least one of the ranges has offsets that differ relative to each other. Such offsets allow the three ranks to be fully interleaved, two ways. An instruction to read data at a rank-agnostic location in the diverse-offset range causes the memory controller to map the rank-agnostic location to two interleaved locations offset different amounts from their respective base locations in their ranks. The controller may then affect the transfer of the data at the two interleaved locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Brett Kenneth DODDS, Monish Shantilal SHAH
  • Patent number: 11429523
    Abstract: A memory controller maintains a mapping of target ranges in system memory space interleaved two-ways across locations in a three-rank environment. For each range of the target ranges, the mapping comprises a two-way interleaving of the range across two ranks of the three-rank environment and offsets from base locations in the two ranks. At least one of the ranges has offsets that differ relative to each other. Such offsets allow the three ranks to be fully interleaved, two ways. An instruction to read data at a rank-agnostic location in the diverse-offset range causes the memory controller to map the rank-agnostic location to two interleaved locations offset different amounts from their respective base locations in their ranks. The controller may then affect the transfer of the data at the two interleaved locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Kenneth Dodds, Monish Shantilal Shah
  • Publication number: 20220113868
    Abstract: A computing apparatus in an implementation comprises a memory device and a controller. The memory device comprises banks of cells arranged in rows and columns and is configured to maintain a row-level activation count on a per-row basis. The controller is operatively coupled with the memory device and is configured to maintain a bank-level activation count on a per-bank basis. The controller initiates a refresh operation for at least a given row in the memory device when at least both the bank-level activation count for a given bank satisfies a bank-level condition, and the row-level activation count for the given row satisfies a row-level condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Tim COWLES, Terry M. GRUNZKE, Brett Kenneth DODDS, Todd Alan MERRITT, Gary Lee VAN ACKERN
  • Publication number: 20210357321
    Abstract: A memory controller maintains a mapping of target ranges in system memory space interleaved two-ways across locations in a three-rank environment. For each range of the target ranges, the mapping comprises a two-way interleaving of the range across two ranks of the three-rank environment and offsets from base locations in the two ranks. At least one of the ranges has offsets that differ relative to each other. Such offsets allow the three ranks to be fully interleaved, two ways. An instruction to read data at a rank-agnostic location in the diverse-offset range causes the memory controller to map the rank-agnostic location to two interleaved locations offset different amounts from their respective base locations in their ranks. The controller may then affect the transfer of the data at the two interleaved locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Brett Kenneth Dodds, Monish Shantilal Shah