Patents by Inventor Lance Ceili

Lance Ceili 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).

  • Delay of power off to write data from volatile to non-volatile memory of a solid state drive
    Patent number: 11294442
    Abstract: In an example, a method, non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, and apparatus is described for preserving data in a solid state drive in the event of an unclean shutdown of the host computing system. A controller of the host computing system detects an unclean shutdown that initiates a power down of the host computing system, In response to the detecting the controller asserts a first signal that signals the solid state drive to write data in a volatile memory of the solid state drive to a non-volatile memory of the solid state drive, The controller then initiates a timer to count down a predefined delay period after the asserting. Upon an expiration of the timer, the controller asserts a second signal that instructs a power supply of the host computing system to power off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Byron A. Alcorn, Shane Ward, Ronald G. Rogers, Lance Ceili
  • DELAY OF POWER OFF TO WRITE DATA FROM VOLATILE TO NON-VOLATILE MEMORY OF A SOLID STATE DRIVE
    Publication number: 20200233474
    Abstract: In an example, a method, non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, and apparatus is described for preserving data in a solid state drive in the event of an unclean shutdown of the host computing system. A controller of the host computing system detects an unclean shutdown that initiates a power down of the host computing system, In response to the detecting the controller asserts a first signal that signals the solid state drive to write data in a volatile memory of the solid state drive to a non-volatile memory of the solid state drive, The controller then initiates a timer to count down a predefined delay period after the asserting. Upon an expiration of the timer, the controller asserts a second signal that instructs a power supply of the host computing system to power off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Byron A. Alcorn, Shane Ward, Ronald G. Rogers, Lance Ceili