Patents by Inventor Conner Haffner

Conner Haffner 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).

  • Dynamically selecting segment heights in a heterogeneous RAID group
    Patent number: 12001700
    Abstract: A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to select a segment height based on erase block sizes of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device is further to program a data segment using the segment height to a data stripe across two or more of the plurality of solid-state storage devices and store the segment height in metadata associated with the data segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Bernat, Radek Aster, Benjamin Scholbrock, Conner Haffner, Yunpeng Duan, John Adler, Tsu-Hao Chang
  • DYNAMICALLY SELECTING SEGMENT HEIGHTS IN A HETEROGENEOUS RAID GROUP
    Publication number: 20210208783
    Abstract: A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to select a segment height based on erase block sizes of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device is further to program a data segment using the segment height to a data stripe across two or more of the plurality of solid-state storage devices and store the segment height in metadata associated with the data segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew R. Bernat, Radek Aster, Benjamin Scholbrock, Conner Haffner, Yunpeng Duan, John Adler, Tsu-Hao Chang
  • Dynamically selecting segment heights in a heterogeneous RAID group
    Patent number: 10976947
    Abstract: A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to select a segment height based on erase block sizes of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device is further to program a data segment using the segment height to a data stripe across two or more of the plurality of solid-state storage devices and store the segment height in metadata associated with the data segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Bernat, Radek Aster, Benjamin Scholbrock, Conner Haffner, Yunpeng Duan, John Adler, Tsu-Hao Chang
  • DYNAMICALLY SELECTING SEGMENT HEIGHTS IN A HETEROGENEOUS RAID GROUP
    Publication number: 20200133492
    Abstract: A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to select a segment height based on erase block sizes of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device is further to program a data segment using the segment height to a data stripe across two or more of the plurality of solid-state storage devices and store the segment height in metadata associated with the data segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew R. Bernat, Radek Aster, Benjamin Scholbrock, Conner Haffner, Yunpeng Duan, John Adler, Tsu-Hao Chang