Patents by Inventor Kenneth L. Wright

Kenneth L. Wright 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: 20260064612
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe technologies of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) components for high-performance, high-capacity registered memory modules, such as registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs). One DRAM component may include a set of memory cells and steering logic. The steering logic may include a first data interface and a second data interface. The first and second data interfaces are selectively coupled to a controller component in a first mode and the first data interface is selectively coupled to the controller component in a second mode and the second data interface is selectively coupled to a second DRAM component in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Ely Tsern, John Eric Linstadt, Thomas J. Giovannini, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20250371119
    Abstract: A system for authenticating a login request includes a computing device including a processing circuit configured to receive the login request including a user identifier associated with a user, transmit a request for location information of a user device associated with the user to indicate a location of the user device, receive, from the user device, a location-based modifiable digital fingerprint comprising an encoded value for a location of the user device where the updated location-based modifiable digital fingerprint is received by the computing device based on a change in the location of the user device, verify the user device based on a change to the encoded value for the location of the user device, and provide the user access to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gerard K. Cohen, Michelle D. Green, Christopher P. Smith, Craig Stuart, Kenneth L. Wright, Michelle M. Young
  • Patent number: 12436907
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe technologies of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) components for high-performance, high-capacity registered memory modules, such as registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs). One DRAM component may include a set of memory cells and steering logic. The steering logic may include a first data interface and a second data interface. The first and second data interfaces are selectively coupled to a controller component in a first mode and the first data interface is selectively coupled to the controller component in a second mode and the second data interface is selectively coupled to a second DRAM component in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Ely Tsern, John Eric Linstadt, Thomas J. Giovannini, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 12411781
    Abstract: A memory controller includes an interface to couple to storage class memory (SCM) space and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) space. At least a portion of the DRAM storage space is configured as a cache for the SCM storage space. The interface to receive an incoming tag address for a read operation. Tag comparison circuitry performs a comparison of the incoming tag address to stored tag addresses associated with the DRAM cache. The data in the addressed DRAM cache space is selectively provided directly to the memory controller as first read data based on the results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright, John Eric Linstadt, Craig Hampel
  • Patent number: 12406038
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating a user based at least in part on a location of the user or a location of a user device are described. A method includes: receiving a login request including a user identifier associated with a user; transmitting a request for location information of a user device associated with the user; causing computer-executable code deployed to the user device to generate a location-based modifiable digital fingerprint comprising a first encoded value based on a unique identifier of the user device and a second encoded value based on a first location information of the user device; receiving the location-based modifiable digital fingerprint from the user device; verifying that the location information from the location-based modifiable digital fingerprint corresponds to a second location; and providing the user access to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gerard K. Cohen, Michelle D. Green, Christopher P. Smith, Craig Stuart, Kenneth L. Wright, Michelle M. Young
  • Patent number: 12236423
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: generating a GUI including a first button selectable to register identity information and a second button selectable to request identity information; receiving, in response to the first button being selected, pieces of identity information regarding a customer; receiving a preference for each piece of identity information from the customer that governs distribution of identity information to requesting parties; generating a customer-specific key; provisioning the key to an identification chip of a customer computing device; transmitting the graphical user interface to a computing device of a requesting party other than the customer; receiving, in response to the second button being selected, the key, a request for identity information, and an identity of the requesting party; identifying the customer based on the key; determining that a preference for the requested piece of identity information is met; and providing the requested piece of identity information to the req
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Jana L. Chilton, Angira Goswami, Muhammad Farukh Munir, Traci Nguyen, Priyamvada Singh, Darrell L. Suen, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 12216543
    Abstract: A memory system includes dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) components that include interconnected and redundant component data interfaces. The redundant interfaces facilitate memory interconnect topologies that accommodate considerably more DRAM components per memory channel than do traditional memory systems, and thus offer considerably more memory capacity per channel, without concomitant reductions in signaling speeds. The memory components can be configured to route data around defective data connections to maintain full capacity and continue to support memory transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Wright, Frederick A. Ware
  • Patent number: 12213548
    Abstract: A memory module includes cache of relatively fast and durable dynamic, random-access memory (DRAM) in service of a larger amount of relatively slow and wear-sensitive non-volatile memory. Local controller manages communication between the DRAM cache and non-volatile memory to accommodate disparate access granularities, reduce the requisite number of memory transactions, and minimize the flow of data external to nonvolatile memory components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20250021497
    Abstract: Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) memory component is disclosed that includes a memory core, a primary interface, and a secondary interface. The primary interface includes data input/output (I/O) circuitry and control/address (C/A) input circuitry, and accesses the memory core during a normal mode of operation. The secondary interface accesses the memory core during a fault mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20240321339
    Abstract: Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single-and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 12066957
    Abstract: Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) memory component is disclosed that includes a memory core, a primary interface, and a secondary interface. The primary interface includes data input/output (I/O) circuitry and control/address (C/A) input circuitry, and accesses the memory core during a normal mode of operation. The secondary interface accesses the memory core during a fault mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20240257863
    Abstract: A memory system includes dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) components that include interconnected and redundant component data interfaces. The redundant interfaces facilitate memory interconnect topologies that accommodate considerably more DRAM components per memory channel than do traditional memory systems, and thus offer considerably more memory capacity per channel, without concomitant reductions in signaling speeds. Each DRAM component includes multiplexers that allow either of the data interfaces to write data to or read data from a common set of memory banks, and to selectively relay write and read data to and from other components, bypassing the local banks. Delay elements can impose selected read/write delays to align read and write transactions from and to disparate DRAM components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Ely K. Tsern, John E. Linstadt, Thomas A. Giovannini, Scott C. Best, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20240160587
    Abstract: Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory module includes a pin interface for coupling to a bus. The bus has a first width. The module includes at least one storage class memory (SCM) component and at least one DRAM component. The memory module operates in a first mode that utilizes all of the first width, and in a second mode that utilizes less than all of the first width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright, John Eric Linstadt, Craig Hampel
  • Patent number: 11967364
    Abstract: Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20240104036
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe technologies of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) components for high-performance, high-capacity registered memory modules, such as registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs). One DRAM component may include a set of memory cells and steering logic. The steering logic may include a first data interface and a second data interface. The first and second data interfaces are selectively coupled to a controller component in a first mode and the first data interface is selectively coupled to the controller component in a second mode and the second data interface is selectively coupled to a second DRAM component in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Ely Tsern, John Eric Linstadt, Thomas J. Giovannini, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Publication number: 20240004813
    Abstract: Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) memory component is disclosed that includes a memory core, a primary interface, and a secondary interface. The primary interface includes data input/output (I/O) circuitry and control/address (C/A) input circuitry, and accesses the memory core during a normal mode of operation. The secondary interface accesses the memory core during a fault mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 11862236
    Abstract: In a memory component programmed to operate in a first operating mode and having a page buffer and a fixed-width data interface, N bits of a command/address value are decoded to access one of 2N columns of data within the page-buffer, with that column of data output via the fixed-width data interface over a first burst interval. If programmed to operate in a second operating mode, M bits of the command/address value are decoded to access a larger column of data—one of 2M columns of data within the page buffer, where M<N—with that larger column of data output via the fixed-width data interface over a second burst interval longer than the first burst interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 11836099
    Abstract: Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory module includes a pin interface for coupling to a bus. The bus has a first width. The module includes at least one storage class memory (SCM) component and at least one DRAM component. The memory module operates in a first mode that utilizes all of the first width, and in a second mode that utilizes less than all of the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Kenneth L. Wright, John Eric Linstadt, Craig Hampel
  • Publication number: 20230377632
    Abstract: Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 11815940
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe technologies of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) components for high-performance, high-capacity registered memory modules, such as registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs). One DRAM component may include a set of memory cells and steering logic. The steering logic may include a first data interface and a second data interface. The first and second data interfaces are selectively coupled to a controller component in a first mode and the first data interface is selectively coupled to the controller component in a second mode and the second data interface is selectively coupled to a second DRAM component in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Ely Tsern, John Eric Linstadt, Thomas J. Giovannini, Kenneth L. Wright