Patents by Inventor Jason M. BILLS

Jason M. BILLS 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).

  • MEMORY DEVICE FIRMWARE UPDATE AND ACTIVATION WITH MEMORY ACCESS QUIESCENCE
    Publication number: 20200326925
    Abstract: Examples include updating firmware for a persistent memory module in a computing system during runtime. Examples include downloading firmware to the persistent memory module; saving settings of one or more input/output (I/O) devices of the computing system and setting a timeout value of the one or more I/O devices to greater than a time to activate the firmware in the persistent memory module. Examples include updating the firmware in the persistent memory module during runtime of the computing system by quiescing access to one or more memory modules of the computing system; sending a request to the persistent memory module to activate the firmware; waiting for the request to activate the firmware to be completed by the persistent memory module; and un-quiescing access to the one or more memory modules of the computing system; and restoring the saved settings for the one or more I/O devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Murugasamy K. NACHIMUTHU, Mohan J. KUMAR, Tiffany J. KASANICKY, Christopher HESS, Sarathy JAYAKUMAR, Daniel K. OSAWA, Maciej PLUCINSKI, Krzysztof RUSOCKI, Jason M. BILLS