Patents by Inventor Cheng-Ding Chen

Cheng-Ding Chen 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).

  • Method for controlling write buffer based on states of sectors of write buffer and associated all flash array server
    Patent number: 11487654
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of a server, wherein the server includes a write buffer for temporarily storing data from an electronic device, the write buffer has a plurality of sectors, and the write buffer has a write pointer and a flush pointer; and the control method comprises: setting each sector to have one of a plurality of states comprising an empty state, a merging state, a need-flush state and a flushing state; and referring to a state of a specific sector indicted by the write pointer to determine if ignoring the specific sector to directly process a sector after the specific sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng-Ding Chen
  • ALL FLASH ARRAY SERVER AND ASSOCIATED CONTRL METHOD
    Publication number: 20210271595
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of a server, wherein the server includes a write buffer for temporarily storing data from an electronic device, the write buffer has a plurality of sectors, and the write buffer has a write pointer and a flush pointer; and the control method comprises: setting each sector to have one of a plurality of states comprising an empty state, a merging state, a need-flush state and a flushing state; and referring to a state of a specific sector indicted by the write pointer to determine if ignoring the specific sector to directly process a sector after the specific sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Cheng-Ding Chen