Patents by Inventor Hartmut Erhard Penner

Hartmut Erhard Penner 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).

  • System, method and computer program product for instantiating blocks of a solid-state disk to include different flash characteristics
    Patent number: 11435902
    Abstract: A flash translation layer method, system, and computer program product, include performing a virtualization of a meta-flash translation layer by: instantiating a range in a NAND chip comprising the number of free blocks using a meta-FTL to create a compatible range of blocks for a type of a feature and a flash characteristic of a translation table if a number of free blocks are available in the NAND chip and instantiating a second range in the NAND chip comprising a second number of free blocks using the meta-FTL to create a second compatible range of blocks for a second type of feature and a second flash characteristic of the translation table, and dynamically programming data on the fly based on an input requirement of a request into the range and the second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Hubertus Franke, Hillery C. Hunter, Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Hartmut Erhard Penner
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INSTANTIATING BLOCKS OF A SOLID-STATE DISK TO INCLUDE DIFFERENT FLASH CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20200167075
    Abstract: A flash translation layer method, system, and computer program product, include performing a virtualization of a meta-flash translation layer by: instantiating a range in a NAND chip comprising the number of free blocks using a meta-FTL to create a compatible range of blocks for a type of a feature and a flash characteristic of a translation table if a number of free blocks are available in the NAND chip and instantiating a second range in the NAND chip comprising a second number of free blocks using the meta-FTL to create a second compatible range of blocks for a second type of feature and a second flash characteristic of the translation table, and dynamically programming data on the fly based on an input requirement of a request into the range and the second range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Hubertus Franke, Hillery C. Hunter, Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Hartmut Erhard Penner
  • System, method and computer program product for instantiating blocks of a solid-state disk to include different flash characteristics
    Patent number: 10642497
    Abstract: A flash translation layer method, system, and computer program product, include sending a request with a type of feature and a flash characteristic of a translation table for a Solid-State disk, receiving, via a meta-flash translation layer (meta-FTL), the request and checking for a number of free blocks in a NAND chip, and instantiating a range in the NAND chip including the number of free blocks using the meta-FTL to create a compatible range of blocks for the type of feature and the flash characteristic of the translation table if the checking returns a confirmation that the number of free blocks is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Hubertus Franke, Hillery C. Hunter, Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Hartmut Erhard Penner
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INSTANTIATING BLOCKS OF A SOLID-STATE DISK TO INCLUDE DIFFERENT FLASH CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20180059932
    Abstract: A flash translation layer method, system, and computer program product, include sending a request with a type of feature and a flash characteristic of a translation table for a Solid-State disk, receiving, via a meta-flash translation layer (meta-FTL), the request and checking for a number of free blocks in a NAND chip, and instantiating a range in the NAND chip including the number of free blocks using the meta-FTL to create a compatible range of blocks for the type of feature and the flash characteristic of the translation table if the checking returns a confirmation that the number of free blocks is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Hubertus Franke, Hillery C. Hunter, Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Hartmut Erhard Penner