Patents by Inventor Cyril Varkey

Cyril Varkey 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: 11880300
    Abstract: Provided are a memory controller, system, and method for generating multi-plane reads to read pages on planes of a storage die for a page to read. A memory controller determines planes for a read to a page. A storage die of the storage dies includes a plurality of planes having a plurality of blocks and the blocks have pages. The page to read is implemented in pages on the planes. The memory controller determines threshold voltages for the pages in the determined planes and determines a derived threshold voltage from the determined threshold voltages. The derived threshold voltage is used to perform multi-plane reads of the pages from the determined planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adalberto Guillermo Yanes, Timothy J. Fisher, Cyril Varkey, Kevin E. Sallese
  • Publication number: 20230281119
    Abstract: Provided are a memory controller, system, and method for generating multi-plane reads to read pages on planes of a storage die for a page to read. A memory controller determines planes for a read to a page. A storage die of the storage dies includes a plurality of planes having a plurality of blocks and the blocks have pages. The page to read is implemented in pages on the planes. The memory controller determines threshold voltages for the pages in the determined planes and determines a derived threshold voltage from the determined threshold voltages. The derived threshold voltage is used to perform multi-plane reads of the pages from the determined planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Adalberto Guillermo Yanes, Timothy J. Fisher, Cyril Varkey, Kevin E. Sallese
  • Publication number: 20230281121
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, is for performing garbage collection. The computer-implemented method includes: causing pages in non-volatile memory that are due for garbage collection to be inspected, and causing certain ones of the pages in the non-volatile memory having valid data therein to be identified. Each of the pages of non-volatile memory includes multiple planes, and the valid data is included in one or more of the planes in the respective identified pages. Recirculation requests, that selectively exclude planes in the identified pages that do not include any of the valid data, are further sent to a recirculation pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Adalberto Guillermo Yanes, Timothy J. Fisher, Cyril Varkey