Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for an interface widget tool for automatic QR code generation and display without application launching. A user may engage in a transaction with another user, such as a purchase of goods, services, or other items a merchant at a merchant location using machine-readable codes. A machine-readable code may be provided via a mobile device of a user. In order to provide faster and more efficient code generation, an interface widget or other tool may be provided, which, on selection, may execute API calls to a server of a transaction processor. The transaction processor may generate a code without requiring the user to go through a code generation and processing flow in a corresponding application. The code may be limited in validity and may be presented via the widget. Once scanned, the code may provide encoded data for a financial instrument.

Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided for making a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard disk drive operate with similar random access characteristics of a conventional hard drive despite the SMR disk having strict sequential write requirements. A virtual space manager manages a virtual address space, which is visible to a host system, and maps virtual addresses to logical addresses on the SMR disk. A logical space manager controls the placement of data on the SMR disk and ensures that writes to the disk comply with the sequential write requirements. The disk is subdivided into a plurality of stripes each comprising one or more blocks. When a block located within a stripe is to be rewritten with new data, the entire stripe is read from the SMR disk into a memory of the system, the stripe is modified in the memory to replace the previous data stored in the block with the new data, and the modified stripe is written to a new, next available stripe on the disk.

Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided for making a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard disk drive operate with similar random access characteristics of a conventional hard drive despite the SMR disk having strict sequential write requirements. A virtual space manager manages a virtual address space, which is visible to a host system, and maps virtual addresses to logical addresses on the SMR disk. A logical space manager controls the placement of data on the SMR disk and ensures that writes to the disk comply with the sequential write requirements. The disk is subdivided into a plurality of stripes each comprising one or more blocks. When a block located within a stripe is to be rewritten with new data, the entire stripe is read from the SMR disk into a memory of the system, the stripe is modified in the memory to replace the previous data stored in the block with the new data, and the modified stripe is written to a new, next available stripe on the disk.

Abstract: A data protection system having a host, a solid-state drive (“SSD”) array comprising at least three non-volatile memory express (“NVMe”) drives, each NVMe drive comprising a buffer, and a peripheral component interconnect express (“PCIe”) data bus interfacing the host and the NVMe drives. The NVMe drives are implemented with commands for implementing a RAID volume in the SSD array, wherein the commands are operable to perform RAID operations at the NVMe drives using the buffers of the NVMe drives.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory system is disclosed to include at least one initiator, a SATA device, and an improved bridge device configured to facilitate communication between the at least one initiator and the SATA device and having at least one input port and operative to receive information through the input port(s) from the initiators, the improved bridge device for processing a notification event wherein notification is sent to the at least one initiators during a notification event, and for performing an action, based on a an event, thereby facilitating ease of communication between the initiator and the SATA device.

Abstract: A system and method is described for reliably transferring a node in a communications network from one Logical Network to another Logical Network. The system and method is reliable and robust with respect to potentially varying implementations of host devices in the communications network, and is compatible with other network management operations as specified in HomePlug Specifications.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory system is disclosed to include at least one initiator, a SATA device, and an improved bridge device configured to facilitate communication between the at least one initiator and the SATA device and having at least one input port and operative to receive information through the input port(s) from the initiators, the improved bridge device for processing a notification event wherein notification is sent to the at least one initiators during a notification event, and for performing an action, based on a an event, thereby facilitating ease of communication between the initiator and the SATA device.

Abstract: A system and method is described for reliably transferring a node in a communications network from one Logical Network to another Logical Network. The system and method is reliable and robust with respect to potentially varying implementations of host devices in the communications network, and is compatible with other network management operations as specified in HomePlug Specifications.