Patents by Inventor Mark Ish

Mark Ish 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: 20230065231
    Abstract: A method is described, which includes receiving, by a memory subsystem, a memory command targeted at a memory array; determining, by the memory subsystem, if the memory command is a high priority memory command; and determining if the memory subsystem is processing any non-high priority memory commands. The memory subsystem enables a read page cache mode for processing the memory command in response to determining that (1) the memory command is a high priority memory command and (2) the memory subsystem is not processing any non-high priority memory commands Thereafter, the memory subsystem processes the memory command using the read page cache mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jiangang Wu, Jing Sang Liu, Jung Sheng Hoei, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mark Ish, Myoung Jun Go, Nolan Tran, Qisong Lin
  • Patent number: 11579799
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for the dynamic selection of cores for processing responses are described. A memory sub-system can receive, from a host system, a read command to retrieve data. The memory sub-system can include a first core and a second core. The first core can process the read command based on receiving the read command. The first core can identify the second core for processing a read response associated with the read command. The first core can issue an internal command to retrieve the data from a memory device of the memory sub-system. The internal command can include an indication of the second core selected to process the read response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Ish, Yun Li, Scheheresade Virani, John Paul Traver, Ning Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230013757
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory system identifies, while the memory device is in a first state condition, a plurality of workload conditions associated with the memory device, wherein the plurality of workload conditions comprise data reflecting a performance condition of the memory device. The processing device determines, while the memory device is in the first state condition, a host rate of a host system write performance for the memory device based on one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions. The processing device determines that one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions satisfies a first threshold criterion. Responsive to determining that the one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions satisfies the first threshold criterion, the processing device detects a change in a condition of the memory device from the first state to a second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ying Huang, Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11556258
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory system identifies, while the memory device is in a first state condition, a plurality of workload conditions associated with the memory device, wherein the plurality of workload conditions comprise data reflecting a performance condition of the memory device. The processing device determines, while the memory device is in the first state condition, a host rate of a host system write performance for the memory device based on one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions. The processing device determines that one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions satisfies a first threshold criterion. Responsive to determining that the one or more workload conditions of the plurality of workload conditions satisfies the first threshold criterion, the processing device detects a change in a condition of the memory device from the first state to a second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ying Huang, Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11513959
    Abstract: A request to read data from a location associated with a memory component is received. The request is assigned a first tag, the first tag having a first identifier of a first buffer to store data read from the location. The request to read data is determined to collide with an earlier request to write data to the location. The earlier request is assigned a second tag, the second tag having a second identifier of a second buffer to store data to write to the location. An attempt to lock the second tag and the second buffer for the request to read data is made. The request to read data is fulfilled from the second buffer in response to a successful attempt to lock the second tag and the second buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Horia C. Simionescu, Lyle E. Adams, Yongcai Xu, Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11481348
    Abstract: A first operation identifier is assigned to a current operation directed to a memory component, the first operation identifier having a first entry in a first data structure that associates the first operation identifier with a first buffer identifier. It is determined whether the current operation collides with a prior operation assigned a second operation identifier, the second operation identifier having a second entry in the first data structure that associates the second operation identifier with a second buffer identifier. A latest flag is updated to indicate that the first entry is a latest operation directed to an address (1) in response to determining that the current operation collides with the prior operation and that the current and prior operations are read operations, or (2) in response to determining to determining that the current operation does not collide with a prior operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Lyle E. Adams, Mark Ish, Pushpa Seetamraju, Karl D. Schuh, Dan Tupy
  • Patent number: 11449431
    Abstract: A data storage device may consist of a non-volatile memory having rewritable in-place memory cells each with a read-write asymmetry. The non-volatile memory can store boot data that is subsequently loaded by a selection module of the data storage device. The selection module may bypass a memory buffer of the data storage device to load the boot data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Ish, Timothy Canepa, David S. Ebsen
  • Publication number: 20220291995
    Abstract: A die read counter and a block read counter are maintained for a specified block of a memory device. An estimated number of read events associated with the specified block is determined based on a value of the block read counter and a value of the die read counter. Responsive to determining that the estimated number of read events satisfies a criterion, a media management operation of one or more pages associated with the specified block is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Gerald L. Cadloni, Mark Ish, James P. Crowley
  • Publication number: 20220237078
    Abstract: A total read counter, a plurality of die read counters, and a plurality of block read counters are maintained. Each die read counter is associated with a respective die of a memory device. A value of a block read counter and a value of a die read counter are determined for a specified block. Based on the value of the block read counter, the value of the die read counter, and the value of the total read counter, an estimated number of read events associated with the specified block of the memory device is determined. Responsive to determining that the estimated number of read events satisfies a predefined criterion, a media management operation of one or more pages associated with the specified block is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Gerald L. Cadloni, Mark Ish, James P. Crowley
  • Publication number: 20220236920
    Abstract: An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a read command specifying an identifier of a logical block and a page number; translate the identifier of the logical block into a physical address of a physical block stored on the memory device, wherein the physical address comprises an identifier of a memory device die; identify, based on block family metadata associated with the memory device, a block family associated with the physical block and the page number; determine a threshold voltage offset associated with the block family and the memory device die; compute a modified threshold voltage by applying the threshold voltage offset to a base read level voltage associated with the memory device die; and read, using the modified threshold voltage, data from a physical page identified by the page number within the physical block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11379304
    Abstract: A total read counter, a plurality of die read counters, and a plurality of block read counters are maintained. Each die read counter is associated with a respective die of a memory device. A value of a block read counter and a value of a die read counter are determined for a specified block. Based on the value of the block read counter, the value of the die read counter, and the value of the total read counter, an estimated number of read events associated with the specified block of the memory device is determined. Responsive to determining that the estimated number of read events satisfies a predefined criterion, a media management operation of one or more pages associated with the specified block is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald L. Cadloni, Mark Ish, James P. Crowley
  • Publication number: 20220171574
    Abstract: A memory sub-system having memory cells formed on a plurality of integrated circuit dies. After receiving a command from a host system to store data, the memory sub-system queues the command to allocate pages of memory cells in a plurality of dies in the plurality of integrated circuit dies based on a determination that each of the plurality of dies is available to perform a data programming operation for the command. Based on the page application, the memory sub-system generates a portion of a media layout to at least map logical addresses of the data identified in the command to the allocated pages and receives the data from the host system. The memory sub-system stores the data into the pages using a multi-pass programming technique, where an atomic multi-pass programming operation can be configured to use at least two pages in separate planes in one or more dies in the plurality of integrated circuit dies to program at least a portion of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, Steven S. Williams, Mark Ish, John Edward Maroney
  • Patent number: 11347434
    Abstract: An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a read command specifying an identifier of a logical block and a page number; translate the identifier of the logical block into a physical address of a physical block stored on the memory device, wherein the physical address comprises an identifier of a memory device die; identify, based on block family metadata associated with the memory device, a block family associated with the physical block and the page number; determine a threshold voltage offset associated with the block family and the memory device die; compute a modified threshold voltage by applying the threshold voltage offset to a base read level voltage associated with the memory device die; and read, using the modified threshold voltage, data from a physical page identified by the page number within the physical block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ish
  • Publication number: 20220129376
    Abstract: A system includes integrated circuit (IC) dies having memory cells and a processing device, which is to perform operations including generating a number of zone map entries for zones of a logical block address (LBA) space that are sequentially mapped to physical address space of the plurality of IC dies, wherein each zone map entry corresponds to a respective data group that has been sequentially written to one or more IC dies; and generating a die identifier and a block identifier for each data block of multiple data blocks of the respective data group, wherein each data block corresponds to a media block of the plurality of IC dies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, Johnny A. Lam, John E. Maroney, Mark Ish
  • Publication number: 20220083276
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to dynamically determine input/output sizes of write commands based on a media physical layout of a memory sub-system. The memory sub-system can identify, dynamically in response to write commands being selected for execution in media units of the memory sub-system, a portion of a media layout that maps from logical addresses identified by the write commands in the logical address space to physical addresses of memory units in the media units. Based on the media layout, an input/output size for a next write command is identified and transmitted to the host system in a response. The host system generates the next write command and configures the amount of data to be written through the next write command based on based on the input/output size identified in the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, Mark Ish
  • Publication number: 20220075729
    Abstract: A hybrid storage device with three-level memory mapping is provided. An illustrative device comprises a primary storage device comprising a plurality of primary sub-blocks; a cache memory device comprising a plurality of cache sub-blocks implemented as a cache for the primary storage device; and a controller configured to map at least one portion of one or more primary sub-blocks of the primary storage device stored in the cache to a physical location in the cache memory device using at least one table identifying portions of the primary storage device that are cached in one or more of the cache sub-blocks of the cache memory device, wherein a size of the at least one table is independent of a capacity of the primary storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nitin Satishchandra Kabra, Jackson Ellis, Niranjan Anant Pol, Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11269552
    Abstract: A memory sub-system having memory cells formed on a plurality of integrated circuit dies. After receiving a command from a host system to store data, the memory sub-system queues the command to allocate pages of memory cells in a plurality of dies in the plurality of integrated circuit dies based on a determination that each of the plurality of dies is available to perform a data programming operation for the command. Based on the page application, the memory sub-system generates a portion of a media layout to at least map logical addresses of the data identified in the command to the allocated pages and receives the data from the host system. The memory sub-system stores the data into the pages using a multi-pass programming technique, where an atomic multi-pass programming operation can be configured to use at least two pages in separate planes in one or more dies in the plurality of integrated circuit dies to program at least a portion of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, Steven S. Williams, Mark Ish, John Edward Maroney
  • Patent number: 11249896
    Abstract: A system includes integrated circuit (IC) dies having memory cells and a processing device coupled to the IC dies. The processing device performs operations including storing, within a zone map data structure, zones of a logical block address (LBA) space sequentially mapped to physical address space of the IC dies. A zone map entry in the zone map data structure corresponds to a data group written to one or more of the IC dies. The operations further include storing, within a block set data structure indexed by a block set identifier of the zone map entry, a die identifier and a block identifier for each data block of multiple data blocks of the data group, and writing multiple data groups, which are sequentially mapped across the zones, sequentially across the IC dies. Each data block can correspond to a media (or erase) block of the IC dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, Johnny A. Lam, John E. Maroney, Mark Ish
  • Patent number: 11221776
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for metadata indication are described herein. A method includes receiving, from a host system, a read command to retrieve information from a first block of a memory device, identifying a transfer unit associated with the first block indicated in the read command, identifying an indicator in metadata of the identified transfer unit indicating that at least one sector of the transfer unit has been altered based at least in part on identifying the transfer unit, validating data of the transfer unit stored in the memory device based at least in part on identifying the indicator in the metadata, and retrieving the information stored in the first block based at least in part on validating the data of the transfer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Ish, Yiran Liu, Tom V. Geukens
  • Patent number: 11221956
    Abstract: A hybrid storage device with three-level memory mapping is provided. An illustrative device comprises a primary storage device comprising a plurality of primary sub-blocks; a cache memory device comprising a plurality of cache sub-blocks implemented as a cache for the primary storage device; and a controller configured to map at least one portion of one or more primary sub-blocks of the primary storage device stored in the cache to a physical location in the cache memory device using at least one table identifying portions of the primary storage device that are cached in one or more of the cache sub-blocks of the cache memory device, wherein a size of the at least one table is independent of a capacity of the primary storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Nitin Satishchandra Kabra, Jackson Ellis, Niranjan Anant Pol, Mark Ish