Patents by Inventor John A. Hayes

John A. Hayes 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: 11748097
    Abstract: Extending fused multiply-add instructions, including: receiving an extended fused multiply-add (FMA) instruction comprising a first subset of bits indicating a corresponding register for each operand of a fused multiply-add (FMA) operation and a second subset of bits indicating a different register storing data describing one or more transformations applicable to one or more operands of the FMA operation; and performing, based on the extended FMA instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig
  • Publication number: 20230273916
    Abstract: A system and method for managing tables in a storage system is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN COLGROVE, JOSEPH S. HASBANI, JOHN HAYES, ETHAN MILLER, CARY SANDVIG
  • Publication number: 20230273743
    Abstract: A system and method comprising: receiving a request to write data stored at a first range of a first volume to a second range of a second volume, where first metadata for the first range of the first volume is associated with a range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and responsive to receiving the request: creating second metadata for the second range of the second volume, wherein the second metadata is associated with the range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and associating the second volume with the second metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: ETHAN MILLER, JIANTING CAO, JOHN COLGROVE, CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, JOHN HAYES, CARY SANDVIG, GRIGORI INOZEMTSEV
  • Publication number: 20230267040
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for die-level monitoring is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a plurality of storage nodes through erasure coding, wherein the plurality of storage nodes are housed within a chassis that couples the storage nodes. Each of the storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage with non-volatile memory and the user data is accessible via the erasure coding from a remainder of the storage nodes in event of two of the storage nodes being unreachable. The method includes producing diagnostic information that diagnoses the non-volatile memory on a basis of per package, per die, per plane, per block, or per page, the producing performed by each of the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes writing the diagnostic information to a memory in the storage cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN D. DAVIS, JOHN HAYES, HARI KANNAN, NENAD MILADINOVIC, ZHANGXI TAN
  • Publication number: 20230269469
    Abstract: Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG
  • Publication number: 20230269491
    Abstract: Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: VOLKMAR UHLIG, JOHN HAYES, RIAZ ALI, SHAUN M. PACHECO, JUSTIN N. ERICKSON, JAMES S. CROSS, DANIEL D. SCHMIDT, AKASH J. SAGAR
  • Patent number: 11734186
    Abstract: A method for preserving a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual server is provided. The method includes assigning a physical computing resource to a virtual server, assigning a physical storage memory resource to the virtual server, and assigning a physical network resource to the virtual server. The method includes assigning a virtual MAC address to the virtual server, the virtual MAC address to remain with the virtual server despite reassignment of one or more of the physical computing resource, the physical storage memory resource or the physical network resource, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor. A computing and storage system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Par Botes, Robert Lee, Peter Vajgel
  • Publication number: 20230259454
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable medium are described for low latency reads using cached deduplicated data, including: receiving a request to read data from a storage system; query, using a generated hash value associated with the request to read data, one or more deduplication tables that corresponds to the hash value; and responsive to determining that the one or more deduplication tables includes an entry that corresponds to the hash value, using a mapping contained in the entry to perform the requested to read data, wherein the mapping includes a pointer to a physical location where at least a portion of the data is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN COLGROVE, JOHN HAYES, ETHAN MILLER, FENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20230251944
    Abstract: A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to communicate together as a storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes, with erasure coding of the user data. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to recover from failure of two of the plurality of storage nodes by applying the erasure coding to the user data from a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to detect an error and engage in an error recovery via one of a processor of one of the plurality of storage nodes, a processor of the non-volatile solid state storage, or the flash memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN D. DAVIS, JOHN HAYES, HARI KANNAN, NENAD MILADINOVIC, ZHANGXI TAN
  • Patent number: 11722567
    Abstract: A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes, each of the plurality of storage nodes having a plurality of storage units with storage memory. The system includes a first network coupling the plurality of storage nodes and a second network coupled to at least a subset of the plurality of storage units of each of the plurality of storage nodes such that one of the plurality of storage units of a first one of the plurality of storage nodes can initiate or relay a command to one of the plurality of storage units of a second one of the plurality of storage nodes via the second network without the command passing through the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Par Botes, John Hayes, Zhangxi Tan
  • Patent number: 11714715
    Abstract: A plurality of storage nodes in a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes in the single chassis is configured to communicate together as a storage cluster. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes maintain the ability to read the user data, using erasure coding, despite a loss of two of the plurality of storage nodes. A plurality of compute nodes is included in the single chassis, each of the plurality of compute nodes is configured to communicate with the plurality of storage nodes. A method for accessing user data in a plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, John Colgrove, John D. Davis
  • Patent number: 11704895
    Abstract: Camera data normalization for an autonomous vehicle are described herein, including: receiving, from one or more cameras of the autonomous vehicle, camera data; applying a color normalization to the camera data; applying a spherical reprojection to the camera data; and applying, based on a registration point, a stabilization to the camera data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ghost Autonomy Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian, Christopher R. Lumb
  • Patent number: 11704073
    Abstract: A method for accessing a file in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining, for each file chunk of the file, an authority among differing storage nodes of the storage system and receiving from the authority having ownership of the file chunk, location information for the file chunk. The method includes accessing file chunks of the file as directed by each of the determined authorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC
    Inventors: John Hayes, Robert Lee, Igor Ostrovsky, Peter Vajgel
  • Patent number: 11691637
    Abstract: Handling input data errors in an autonomous vehicle using predictive inputs, including: determining an error in input data for a model of a plurality of models of an automation system of the autonomous vehicle; generating predicted input data for the model; and generating, based on the predicted input data, output data for the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Nima Soltani
  • Publication number: 20230205631
    Abstract: A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the storage nodes. The method includes determining that one of the storage nodes is unreachable and determining to rebuild the user data for the one of the storage nodes that is unreachable. The method includes reading the user data across a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding and writing the user data across the remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, JOHN COLGROVE, ROBERT LEE, IGOR OSTROVSKY, JOSHUA ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20230201483
    Abstract: A safety needle device is disclosed having a housing configured to couple to a syringe, the housing having a proximal end, a distal end, and a housing body. A first guide path, a second guide path and a third guide path may be disposed on the housing body. A needle hub is disposed on the proximal end of the housing and a needle cannula is attached to the needle hub. The device having a retractable sheath configured to move between an initial position, a retracted position and an extended position with respect to the housing, wherein the initial position partially exposes a distal tip of the needle cannula, the retracted position fully exposes the needle cannula, and the extended position fully covers the distal tip of the needle cannula. The retractable sheath also may have a guide element. The first, second and third guide paths are configured to slidingly receive the guide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Laurie Sanders, Darrin Swanson, John Hayes, Gretchen Willard
  • Publication number: 20230195573
    Abstract: A system and method for offset protection data in a RAID array. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller within a data storage array is configured to store user data in a first page of a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices; generate intra-device protection data corresponding to the user data, and store the intra-device protection data at a first offset within the first page. The controller is further configured to generate inter-device protection data corresponding to the first page, and store the inter-device protection data at a second offset within a second page in a second storage device of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the first offset is different from the second offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN COLGROVE, JOHN HAYES, BO HONG, ETHAN MILLER
  • Publication number: 20230188365
    Abstract: A method for authorizing I/O (input/output) commands in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes generating a token responsive to an I/O command, wherein the token is specific to assignment of a storage node of the storage cluster. The method includes verifying the I/O command using the token, wherein the token includes a signature confirming validity of the token and wherein the token is revocable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: ROBERT LEE, JOHN HAYES
  • Patent number: 11675762
    Abstract: A method for deleting a set of keys from a storage server is provided. The method includes generating a probabilistic data structure for a first set of keys and for each key in a second set of keys, determining whether a key of the second set of keys is found in the probabilistic data structure. The method includes identifying the key as a candidate for deletion if the key is not found in the probabilistic data structure. A system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Ethan Miller, John Colgrove
  • Patent number: 11677825
    Abstract: A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage units, each having a controller and solid-state storage memory. The storage system further includes one or more first pathways that couple processing devices of a plurality of storage nodes and is configured to couple to a network external to the storage system and one or more second pathways that couple the plurality of storage nodes to the plurality of storage units, wherein the one or more second pathways enable multiprocessing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, John Colgrove, John D. Davis