Patents by Inventor Jenny L. BROWN

Jenny L. BROWN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240329832
    Abstract: In one general embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving specification of an amount of drive space in a solid state drive (SSD) to emulate, the specified amount being less than all of the drive space of the SSD. The SSD is formatted such that only a number of blocks that provides the specified amount of drive space are made available, and the other blocks are skipped. The available blocks are distributed substantially evenly across planes of the SSD. A presented amount of drive space of the SSD corresponds to the specified amount of drive space. Parameters of the SSD that are dependent upon capacity are scaled based on the specified amount of drive space relative to an actual amount of drive space of the SSD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jenny L. Brown, James Kesley Richardson, Nehal Shah, Aaron Daniel Fry
  • Patent number: 11954022
    Abstract: Provided are a storage device, system, and method for throttling host writes in a host buffer to a storage device. The storage device is coupled to a host system having a host buffer that includes reads and writes to pages of the storage device. Garbage collection consolidates valid data from pages in the storage device to fewer pages. A determination is made as to whether a processing measurement at the storage device satisfies a threshold. A timer value is set to a positive value in response to determining that the processing measurement satisfies the threshold. The timer is started to run for the timer value. Writes from the host buffer are blocked while the timer is running. Writes remain in the host buffer while the timer is running. A write is accepted from the host buffer to process in response to expiration of the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew S. Reuter, Timothy J. Fisher, Aaron Daniel Fry, Jenny L. Brown, John Carrington Cates, Austin Eberle
  • Patent number: 11861175
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes receiving a write request to a system and calculating, based on operating parameters of the system, a total processing time associated with servicing the write request in the system. The method also includes determining an actual time taken to store data specified in the write request and, when the actual time is less than the total processing time, delaying sending a completion message for the write request to an I/O interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Radu Ioan Stoica, Aaron Daniel Fry, Nikolas Ioannou, Nikolaos Papandreou, Roman Alexander Pletka, Charalampos Pozidis, Jenny L Brown
  • Publication number: 20230289061
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes receiving a write request to a system and calculating, based on operating parameters of the system, a total processing time associated with servicing the write request in the system. The method also includes determining an actual time taken to store data specified in the write request and, when the actual time is less than the total processing time, delaying sending a completion message for the write request to an I/O interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Radu Ioan Stoica, Aaron Daniel Fry, Nikolas Ioannou, Nikolaos Papandreou, Roman Alexander Pletka, Charalampos Pozidis, Jenny L. Brown
  • Publication number: 20230281120
    Abstract: Provided are a storage device, system, and method for throttling host writes in a host buffer to a storage device. The storage device is coupled to a host system having a host buffer that includes reads and writes to pages of the storage device. Garbage collection consolidates valid data from pages in the storage device to fewer pages. A determination is made as to whether a processing measurement at the storage device satisfies a threshold. A timer value is set to a positive value in response to determining that the processing measurement satisfies the threshold. The timer is started to run for the timer value. Writes from the host buffer are blocked while the timer is running. Writes remain in the host buffer while the timer is running. A write is accepted from the host buffer to process in response to expiration of the timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew S. REUTER, Timothy J. FISHER, Aaron Daniel FRY, Jenny L. BROWN, John Carrington CATES, Austin EBERLE