Patents by Inventor Carl Mies
Carl Mies 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).
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Patent number: 10831384Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory components; and a controller coupled to the memory array, the controller configured to: determine a set of transactions to be implemented across two or more memory components according to an initial schedule; calculate a first plurality of power consumption levels corresponding to the initial schedule; and if one or more of the power consumption levels exceed a predetermined threshold, calculate an updated schedule for implementing the set of transactions across the two or more memory components, wherein the updated schedule corresponds to a second plurality of power consumption levels that are all at or below the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Brock Myers, Carl Mies
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Publication number: 20190065089Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory components; and a controller coupled to the memory array, the controller configured to: determine a set of transactions to be implemented across two or more memory components according to an initial schedule; calculate a first plurality of power consumption levels corresponding to the initial schedule; and if one or more of the power consumption levels exceed a predetermined threshold, calculate an updated schedule for implementing the set of transactions across the two or more memory components, wherein the updated schedule corresponds to a second plurality of power consumption levels that are all at or below the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Brock Myers, Carl Mies
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Patent number: 7664018Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fiber Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2003Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Michael L. White, Warren Eng, Bruce E. Johnson
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Patent number: 7660316Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Bruce E. Johnson, Michael L. White, Warren Eng
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Patent number: 7630300Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fiber Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Thomas Hammond-Doel, Michael L. White
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Patent number: 7397788Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Carl Mies, Bruce Gregory Warren
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Patent number: 7382790Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William P. Goodwin, Carl Mies, Bruce E. Johnson, Michael L. White, Warren Eng
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Publication number: 20080005410Abstract: Controlling accesses to target devices such as disk drives by modifying the duty cycle profile of those devices to improve device reliability is disclosed. The utilization of a target device is monitored, and if a device is being overused, that device is given a rest period by reserving it for a special initiator that does not send any commands to the device for a certain period of time. This reduced utilization has the effect of increasing the reliability of the target device. This period of time also adds a delay to the processing of commands for the target device being overutilized so that the device becomes less responsive. This performance penalty creates pressure on system administrators to reduce the number of commands sent to that target device and/or move data to proper devices (that can handle the high number of accesses).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Carl Mies, Bruce Warren, William Goodwin, Lawrence Shiihara
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Publication number: 20060242312Abstract: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed To send SATA FISs to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2005Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: David Crespi, Carl Mies, Bruce Warren, Gary Franco
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Publication number: 20060230218Abstract: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2005Publication date: October 12, 2006Applicant: Emulex design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Warren, Curtis Nottberg, Carl Mies, Kevin Bowman, Noumaan Shah, Gary Franco
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Publication number: 20060187837Abstract: A method is disclosed for maintaining a table of recent accesses for each port for use in predicting whether a request for data from a source device is likely to be sent to a high speed or low speed destination device. The table of recent accesses lists every source device attached to that port and the speed of the destination device with the most recent access to each source device. When an OPN primitive is received at the source port, the source device is identified and used with the table of recent accesses to predict whether the destination device is likely to be high speed or low speed, and ultimately whether to send data from the source device or reject the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Warren, William Goodwin, Terrence Doherty, Carl Mies
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Publication number: 20060165115Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to controlling device access fairness in frame-based switches by automatically and continuously counting the number of actively communicating devices connected to each port and the type of devices connected to each port, and adjusting fairness accordingly. During a sampling window, the number of active devices and the type of devices connected to each port is determined. At the start of each fairness window, a weighted number of slots are assigned to each port based on the number of active devices connected to each port and the type of devices connected to that port. Within a single fairness window, each port is able to provide device accesses to the frame-based switch in accordance with the number of slots assigned to that port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Bruce Warren, Carl Mies, Thomas Ambrose, Terrence Doherty
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Publication number: 20060159032Abstract: The discovery and configuration of devices of interest connected to the Ethernet by an Ethernet port is disclosed. To perform discovery, Client software in a management interface transmits packets including the address of the management interface and a port identifier to a known broadcast address, requesting the MAC address for all devices of interest. Server software in the devices of interest parse the broadcast packets and broadcast a packet containing a MAC address that uniquely identifies the devices of interest back to the Client. Once the MAC addresses are returned to the Client, the Client can then broadcast protocol packets requesting the configuration of a specific device of interest such as a new IP address. Once a device of interest is configured with at least an IP address, the device of interest can communicate using TCP/IP, and it can thereafter be managed using higher level tools and firmware.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Nathan Ukrainetz, Carl Mies
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Publication number: 20040085972Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: Vixel CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Thomas Hammond-Doel, Michael L. White
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Publication number: 20040085994Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: Vixel CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Bruce E. Johnson, Michael L. White, Warren Eng
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Publication number: 20040085974Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: Vixel CorporationInventors: Carl Mies, Bruce Gregory Warren
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Publication number: 20040081187Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Applicant: Vixel CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William P. Goodman, Carl Mies, Bruce E. Johnson, Michael L. White, Warren Eng
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Publication number: 20040081186Abstract: Methods and apparatus for switching Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fibre Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconnect system may include a first port and a second port, both including port logic to monitor certain arbitrated loop primitives, a connectivity apparatus, a route determination apparatus including a routing table consisting of ALPA addresses and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus coupled to each port and the connectivity apparatus, where the connectivity apparatus creates paths between the ports based on arbitrated loop primitives. In one embodiment, the connectivity apparatus is a crossbar switch. Examples of the arbitrated loop primitives that cause the switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: ARB, OPN and CLS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Applicant: Vixel CorporationInventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, William Goodwin, Carl Mies, Michael L. White, Warren Eng, Bruce E. Johnson