Patents by Inventor Justin Cree Jones

Justin Cree Jones 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).

  • Centralized error handling in application specific integrated circuits
    Patent number: 10528414
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of hardware blocks, each of the plurality of hardware blocks configured to perform a function in response to a request associated with a command, an error queue manager configured to receive an error message from at least one of the plurality of hardware blocks and store the error message in an error queue, the error message including a command identifier of a command in error, and an error state manager including an error state bitmap, the error state bitmap storing an error state bit for each of a plurality of command identifiers, the error state bit indicating either command in error or command not in error; the error state manager configured to set the error state bit for the command identifier of the command in error to indicate command in error in response to an error state message, the error state message including the command identifier of the command in error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew John Tomlin, Justin Cree Jones
  • CENTRALIZED ERROR HANDLING IN APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
    Publication number: 20190079824
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of hardware blocks, each of the plurality of hardware blocks configured to perform a function in response to a request associated with a command, an error queue manager configured to receive an error message from at least one of the plurality of hardware blocks and store the error message in an error queue, the error message including a command identifier of a command in error, and an error state manager including an error state bitmap, the error state bitmap storing an error state bit for each of a plurality of command identifiers, the error state bit indicating either command in error or command not in error; the error state manager configured to set the error state bit for the command identifier of the command in error to indicate command in error in response to an error state message, the error state message including the command identifier of the command in error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew John Tomlin, Justin Cree Jones