Patents by Inventor Kyoung-Ku CHO

Kyoung-Ku CHO 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: 12216571
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a storage device may include a memory device, and a memory controller configured to receive a read command from an external host and control the memory device according to the read command, wherein the read command may include a basic header segment commonly included in commands transferred between the external host and the memory controller and including information indicating that the read command is a command for requesting data stored in the memory device, a transaction specific field including information indicating that the read command is a read command for at least two or more logical addresses, and an extra header segment including information on the at least two or more logical addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Byung Jun Kim, Jea Young Zhang, Young Kyu Jeon, Kyoung Ku Cho
  • Publication number: 20240402929
    Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a replay protected memory block; and a memory controller for, as a submission command requesting access to the replay protected memory block is received from an external host including a host memory having a plurality of Physical Region Pages (PRPs), acquiring a host replay protected memory block data frame stored in one of the plurality of PRPs included in the external host and accessing the replay protected memory block. The submission command may include information on a position at which the memory controller is to store a response to the submission command among the plurality of PRPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Byung Jun KIM, Taek Gyu LEE, Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Publication number: 20240395347
    Abstract: A memory controller includes: a host interface configured to receive, from a host, a diagnostic command for requesting performance of a self-test operation; and a processor configured to perform the self-test operation on a memory device, and generate a response corresponding to the diagnostic command, wherein the host interface is configured to transmit, to the host, the response including: a basic header segment commonly included in protocol information units transmitted/received between the memory controller and the host; and an extra header segment including result information indicating a result of the self-test operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Taek Gyu LEE, Byung Jun KIM, Hui Won LEE, Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Publication number: 20240329877
    Abstract: Provided herein may be an electronic device and a method of operating the same. The electronic device may include a memory device, and a controller configured to receive an inbound protocol information unit (PIU) from an external device and control the memory device based on the inbound PIU, wherein the inbound PIU includes a basic header segment including information about an extra header segment (EHS) length, and an extra header segment defined by the EHS length, and wherein the controller is configured to generate an error message depending on whether the PIU includes an error related to the extra header segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Byung Jun KIM, Ji Wook KIM, Young Woo LEE, Won Kyoo LEE, Taek Gyu LEE, Young Kyu JEON, Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Patent number: 12086442
    Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a replay protected memory block; and a memory controller for, as a submission command requesting access to the replay protected memory block is received from an external host including a host memory having a plurality of Physical Region Pages (PRPs), acquiring a host replay protected memory block data frame stored in one of the plurality of PRPs included in the external host and accessing the replay protected memory block. The submission command may include information on a position at which the memory controller is to store a response to the submission command among the plurality of PRPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Byung Jun Kim, Taek Gyu Lee, Kyoung Ku Cho
  • Patent number: 12039174
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The method of operating a memory controller may include determining whether a reset request received from a host is valid, based on boot workload information related to a plurality of boot stages of the host, and performing a reset operation on a memory device depending on whether the reset request is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Kyoung Ku Cho
  • Publication number: 20240037023
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a storage device may include a memory device, and a memory controller configured to receive a read command from an external host and control the memory device according to the read command, wherein the read command may include a basic header segment commonly included in commands transferred between the external host and the memory controller and including information indicating that the read command is a command for requesting data stored in the memory device, a transaction specific field including information indicating that the read command is a read command for at least two or more logical addresses, and an extra header segment including information on the at least two or more logical addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Byung Jun KIM, Jea Young ZHANG, Young Kyu JEON, Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Patent number: 11815938
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a storage device may include a memory device, and a memory controller configured to receive a read command from an external host and control the memory device according to the read command, wherein the read command may include a basic header segment commonly included in commands transferred between the external host and the memory controller and including information indicating that the read command is a command for requesting data stored in the memory device, a transaction specific field including information indicating that the read command is a read command for at least two or more logical addresses, and an extra header segment including information on the at least two or more logical addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Byung Jun Kim, Jea Young Zhang, Young Kyu Jeon, Kyoung Ku Cho
  • Publication number: 20230342040
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The method of operating a memory controller may include determining whether a reset request received from a host is valid, based on boot workload information related to a plurality of boot stages of the host, and performing a reset operation on a memory device depending on whether the reset request is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Publication number: 20230297261
    Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a replay protected memory block; and a memory controller for, as a submission command requesting access to the replay protected memory block is received from an external host including a host memory having a plurality of Physical Region Pages (PRPs), acquiring a host replay protected memory block data frame stored in one of the plurality of PRPs and accessing the replay protected memory block. The submission command may include information on a position at which the memory controller is to store a response to the submission command among the plurality of PRPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Byung Jun KIM, Taek Gyu LEE, Kyoung Ku CHO
  • Publication number: 20230026323
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a storage device may include a memory device, and a memory controller configured to receive a read command from an external host and control the memory device according to the read command, wherein the read command may include a basic header segment commonly included in commands transferred between the external host and the memory controller and including information indicating that the read command is a command for requesting data stored in the memory device, a transaction specific field including information indicating that the read command is a read command for at least two or more logical addresses, and an extra header segment including information on the at least two or more logical addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Byung Jun KIM, Jea Young Zhang, Young Kyu Jeon, Kyoung Ku Cho
  • Patent number: 10929236
    Abstract: A data processing system may include a host and a memory system, the memory system may include a volatile recovery selection register and a nonvolatile memory device, wherein the memory system checks, after being reset, a value of the recovery selection register and determines whether to perform a recovery operation on the nonvolatile memory device, and when a reset is requested from the host, the memory system sets the value of the recovery selection register and resets the nonvolatile memory device, and the host may read set first data from the memory system through a first booting operation that starts during a power-on operation, may request a reset to the memory system, and may read set second data form the memory system through a second booting operation that starts after the reset of the memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Kyoung-Ku Cho
  • Publication number: 20190188083
    Abstract: A data processing system may include a host and a memory system, the memory system may include a volatile recovery selection register and a nonvolatile memory device, wherein the memory system checks, after being reset, a value of the recovery selection register and determines whether to perform a recovery operation on the nonvolatile memory device, and when a reset is requested from the host, the memory system sets the value of the recovery selection register and resets the nonvolatile memory device, and the host may read set first data from the memory system through a first booting operation that starts during a power-on operation, may request a reset to the memory system, and may read set second data form the memory system through a second booting operation that starts after the reset of the memory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Kyoung-Ku CHO