Patents by Inventor Larry Stephen King

Larry Stephen King 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).

  • Associative and atomic write-back caching system and method for storage subsystem
    Patent number: 10169232
    Abstract: In response to a cacheable write request from a host, physical cache locations are allocated from a free list, and the data blocks are written to those cache locations without regard to whether any read requests to the corresponding logical addresses are pending. After the data has been written, and again without regard to whether any read requests are pending against the corresponding logical addresses, metadata is updated to associate the cache locations with the logical addresses. A count of data access requests pending against each cache location having valid data is maintained, and a cache location is only returned to the free list when the count indicates no data access requests are pending against the cache location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Horia Cristian Simionescu, Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Shashank Nemawarkar, Larry Stephen King, Mark Ish, Shailendra Aulakh
  • ASSOCIATIVE AND ATOMIC WRITE-BACK CACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE SUBSYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170242794
    Abstract: In response to a cacheable write request from a host, physical cache locations are allocated from a free list, and the data blocks are written to those cache locations without regard to whether any read requests to the corresponding logical addresses are pending. After the data has been written, and again without regard to whether any read requests are pending against the corresponding logical addresses, metadata is updated to associate the cache locations with the logical addresses. A count of data access requests pending against each cache location having valid data is maintained, and a cache location is only returned to the free list when the count indicates no data access requests are pending against the cache location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Horia Cristian Simionescu, Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Shashank Nemawarkar, Larry Stephen King, Mark Ish, Shailendra Aulakh