Patents by Inventor Mark Alan Santaniello

Mark Alan Santaniello 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).

  • Testing storage device power circuitry
    Patent number: 10699798
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for testing storage device power circuitry. A storage device controller includes an embedded test program. The storage device controller executes the test program in response to receiving a test command. In one aspect, the test program issues a plurality of different command patterns to test shared power circuitry of storage device components (e.g., shared by an array of NAND flash memory devices). The test program identifies a command pattern that causes a greatest total current draw. In another aspect, the test program issues a specified command pattern (possibly repeatedly) to shared power circuitry to determine if the shared power circuitry fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Laura Marie Caulfield, Mark Alan Santaniello, J. Michael Andrewartha, John J. Siegler
  • Sideband serial channel for PCI express peripheral devices
    Patent number: 9916273
    Abstract: Obtaining data about a peripheral device deployed in a computing environment. A method includes transmitting a primary data stream across a shared communication channel between the peripheral device and a host hosting the peripheral device. The method further includes transmitting on the shared communication channel, a secondary state information stream of consecutively occurring messages with peripheral device state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher James Robinson, Laura Marie Caulfield, Brian Charles Coyne, Mukesh Cooblal, Mark Alan Santaniello
  • TESTING STORAGE DEVICE POWER CIRCUITRY
    Publication number: 20170098479
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for testing storage device power circuitry. A storage device controller includes an embedded test program. The storage device controller executes the test program in response to receiving a test command In one aspect, the test program issues a plurality of different command patterns to test shared power circuitry of storage device components (e.g., shared by an array of NAND flash memory devices). The test program identifies a command pattern that causes a greatest total current draw. In another aspect, the test program issues a specified command pattern (possibly repeatedly) to shared power circuitry to determine if the shared power circuitry fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Laura Marie Caulfield, Mark Alan Santaniello, J. Michael Andrewartha, John J. Siegler
  • Testing storage device power circuitry
    Patent number: 9558848
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for testing storage device power circuitry. A storage device controller includes an embedded test program. The storage device controller executes the test program in response to receiving a test command. In one aspect, the test program issues a plurality of different command patterns to test shared power circuitry of storage device components (e.g., shared by an array of NAND flash memory devices). The test program identifies a command pattern that causes a greatest total current draw. In another aspect, the test program issues a specified command pattern (possibly repeatedly) to shared power circuitry to determine if the shared power circuitry fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Laura Marie Caulfield, Mark Alan Santaniello, J. Michael Andrewartha, John J. Siegler
  • Sideband Serial Channel for PCI Express Peripheral Devices
    Publication number: 20170010995
    Abstract: Obtaining data about a peripheral device deployed in a computing environment. A method includes transmitting a primary data stream across a shared communication channel between the peripheral device and a host hosting the peripheral device. The method further includes transmitting on the shared communication channel, a secondary state information stream of consecutively occurring messages with peripheral device state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher James Robinson, Laura Marie Caulfield, Brian Charles Coyne, Mukesh Cooblal, Mark Alan Santaniello
  • TESTING STORAGE DEVICE POWER CIRCUITRY
    Publication number: 20160125958
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for testing storage device power circuitry. A storage device controller includes an embedded test program. The storage device controller executes the test program in response to receiving a test command. In one aspect, the test program issues a plurality of different command patterns to test shared power circuitry of storage device components (e.g., shared by an array of NAND flash memory devices). The test program identifies a command pattern that causes a greatest total current draw. In another aspect, the test program issues a specified command pattern (possibly repeatedly) to shared power circuitry to determine if the shared power circuitry fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Laura Marie Caulfield, Mark Alan Santaniello, J. Michael Andrewartha, John J. Siegler