Patents by Inventor Richard Feldman
Richard Feldman 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).
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Patent number: 8195909Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a data storage system. The method includes defining a plurality of jobs for a command received from a host. Each of the plurality of jobs is associated with one or more of a plurality of data storage resources of the data storage system. The plurality of jobs have a defined order that is a function of addresses of data in the plurality of data storage resources. The method also includes issuing the plurality of jobs to the associated data storage resources and receiving information from the data storage resources for the plurality of jobs. The information is received by a controller of the data storage system for the jobs in an order that is different than the defined order. The method includes transmitting the received information to the host for the plurality of jobs in the defined order.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Jonathan Williams Haines, Brett Alan Cook, Timothy Richard Feldman, Paul Michael Wiggins
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Patent number: 8164936Abstract: A data storage system includes a plurality of memory devices for storing data. The plurality of memory devices is classified into a plurality of groups of memory devices. A control circuit is adapted to provide concurrent memory access operations to the plurality of memory devices. Each of a plurality of data channels is configured to provide a data path between the control circuit and one of the groups of memory devices. A plurality of switches is configured to connect and disconnect one of the memory devices in a select one of the groups of memory devices to one of the plurality of data channels and concurrently connect and disconnect another of the memory devices in the select group of memory devices to a different one of the plurality of data channels.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Wayne Howard Vinson
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Publication number: 20120017045Abstract: Multi-resolution cache monitoring devices and methods are provided. Multi-resolution cache devices illustratively have a cache memory, an interface, an information unit, and a processing unit. The interface receives a request for data that may be included in the cache memory. The information unit has state information for the cache memory. The state information is organized in a hierarchical structure. The process unit searches the hierarchical structure for the requested data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Jonathan Williams Haines, Wayne Howard Vinson, Edwin Scott Olds, Timothy Richard Feldman, Steven S. Williams
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Patent number: 8032699Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring logical block address (LBA) activity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a pattern of a data storage device may be monitored. An LBA may be detected that is accessed based on the pattern. The LBA may be added to a list of LBAs stored in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Edwin Scott Olds, Jonathan Williams Haines, Daniel Joseph Coonen
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Patent number: 8028137Abstract: Systems and methods of selective data mirroring are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a device is disclosed that includes a data storage medium and a controller operably coupled to the data storage medium. The controller configured to selectively enable a data mirroring function to copy data in a first data storage location of the data storage medium to one or more second data storage locations of the data storage medium when the one or more second data storage locations do not have valid primary data stored to them.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Joseph L. Wach, Timothy Richard Feldman
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Patent number: 8018766Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for concurrent intersymbol interference encoding in a solid state memory. In an illustrative embodiment, a write data signal is received as input to a processing component. A channel-effect-corrected encoding of the write data signal is produced, where the channel-effect-corrected encoding is based on the write data signal and a channel effect factor that models concurrent intersymbol interference of the write data signal in a target data storage component in communicative connection with the processing component. An output signal based on the channel-effect-corrected encoding of the write data signal is produced from the processing component.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Jonathan Williams Haines, Timothy Richard Feldman
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Publication number: 20110161555Abstract: The disclosure is related to systems and methods of dynamic dataflow in a multiple cache architecture. In an embodiment, a system having a data storage device with a multiple cache architecture may detect at least one attribute affecting a data storage workload or data storage performance. The system may select at least one of a plurality of data flow schemes based on the at least one attribute, which may be done to optimize the data storage workload for various conditions. In another embodiment, a data storage controller may automatically and dynamically select one of multiple data flow schemes within a data storage device having a multiple cache architecture. The data storage controller may monitor attributes to determine which data flow scheme to select for various workloads of the data storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Edwin Scott Olds, Timothy Richard Feldman, David Warren Wheelock, Steven Scott William, Robert William Dixon
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Publication number: 20110145537Abstract: A data storage management system is provided, which includes multiple storage entities with differing storage characteristics. A controller is communicatively coupled to each of the multiple storage entities. The controller is configured to associate one or more storage attributes of a received object with one or more of the different storage characteristics, and to store the received object in one or more of the multiple storage entities based on the association of the one or more of the storage attributes of the received object with the one or more of the different storage characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Wayne Howard Vinson
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Publication number: 20110085367Abstract: A data storage system includes a plurality of memory devices for storing data. The plurality of memory devices is classified into a plurality of groups of memory devices. A control circuit is adapted to provide concurrent memory access operations to the plurality of memory devices. Each of a plurality of data channels is configured to provide a data path between the control circuit and one of the groups of memory devices. A plurality of switches is configured to connect and disconnect one of the memory devices in a select one of the groups of memory devices to one of the plurality of data channels and concurrently connect and disconnect another of the memory devices in the select group of memory devices to a different one of the plurality of data channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Wayne Howard Vinson
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Publication number: 20110087631Abstract: The disclosure is related to systems and methods of distributing data in devices with multiple storage entities. In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes multiple storage entities, with each storage entity having a sub-controller. A controller is communicatively coupled to each of the multiple storage entities. The controller is configured to send at least one of a respective copy of data or metadata associated with the respective copy of the data to each of the multiple storage entities. Upon receipt of the at least one of the respective copy of the data or the metadata associated with the respective copy of the data, each sub-controller provides storage competency information of the respective storage entity for the respective copy of the data. Upon receiving storage competency information for the multiple storage entities, the controller selects a particular one of the multiple storage entities and notifies the selected storage entity to store the respective copy of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Wayne Howard Vinson, Jonathan Williams Haines
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Publication number: 20110082985Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a data storage system. The method includes defining a plurality of jobs for a command received from a host. Each of the plurality of jobs is associated with one or more of a plurality of data storage resources of the data storage system. The plurality of jobs have a defined order that is a function of addresses of data in the plurality of data storage resources. The method also includes issuing the plurality of jobs to the associated data storage resources and receiving information from the data storage resources for the plurality of jobs. The information is received by a controller of the data storage system for the jobs in an order that is different than the defined order. The method includes transmitting the received information to the host for the plurality of jobs in the defined order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Jonathan Williams Haines, Brett Alan Cook, Timothy Richard Feldman, Paul Michael Wiggins
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Publication number: 20110075490Abstract: Data stripes and addressing for flash memory devices are provided. Flash memory devices illustratively have a plurality of programmable devices that are capable of simultaneously storing data. A plurality of erasure blocks are within each of the programmable devices, and each erasure block has pages of transistors. The flash memory devices are logically organized as a plurality of stripes. Each stripe has a height and a width. In an embodiment, the stripe height is greater than one page. In another embodiment, the stripe width is less than all of the programmable devices within the flash memory device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Luke William Friendshuh, Mark Allen Gaertner, Jonathan Williams Haines, Timothy Richard Feldman
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Publication number: 20110077202Abstract: Targeted coagulation factors comprising a coagulation factor linked with at least one domain that specifically binds to a membrane protein on a blood cell is provided. The disclosed targeted coagulation factors increase the efficiency of coagulation factors and prolong their duration of action and thus, are an improvement for the treatment of hematological diseases such as hemophilia A.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Richard Feldman, Ji-Yun Kim, Haiyan Jiang, Kirk Mclean, Junliang Pan, Glenn Pierce, James Wu, Xiao-Yan Zhao
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Publication number: 20100325340Abstract: The disclosure is related to systems and methods of controlling wear of a memory. In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed that comprises a memory and a performance governor circuit coupled to the memory. The performance governor circuit is adapted to control a wear of the memory as a function of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Jonathan Williams Haines, Brett Alan Cook
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Publication number: 20100302871Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for concurrent intersymbol interference encoding in a solid state memory. In an illustrative embodiment, a write data signal is received as input to a processing component. A channel-effect-corrected encoding of the write data signal is produced, where the channel-effect-corrected encoding is based on the write data signal and a channel effect factor that models concurrent intersymbol interference of the write data signal in a target data storage component in communicative connection with the processing component. An output signal based on the channel-effect-corrected encoding of the write data signal is produced from the processing component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Jonathan Williams Haines, Timothy Richard Feldman
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Patent number: 7747907Abstract: A predictive failure control circuit and associated method are provided in a data storing and retrieving apparatus. The circuit is configured to schedule a data integrity operation on data associated with a subportion of a data storage space, in relation to a comparison of an accumulated plurality of executed host access commands associated with the subportion. The subportion can comprise a sector or a single track or a band of tracks. A table preferably stores accumulated number of host access commands for each of a plurality of subportions of the data storage space. The data integrity operation can comprise reading the data on to detect degradation and restoring the recovered data to the same or to new, different tracks. The data subportions can also be reallocated to a new location.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Edwin Scott Olds, Jonathan Williams Haines, Dan Joseph Coonen, Timothy Richard Feldman, Bruce Douglas Emo, James Joseph Touchton
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Publication number: 20100153680Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a storage device includes a controller that is adapted to receive environmental data from a plurality of environmental sensors, where the environmental data is related to an operating environment of the storage device. Further, the controller is adapted to receive state information related to the data storage medium from a plurality of firmware detectors, to weight the received environmental data and the received state information according to a pre-determined weighting table, and to dynamically manage at least one attribute of the storage device based on the weighted environmental data and the weighted state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Edward Baum, Jim Joseph Touchton, Timothy Richard Feldman, Mike Montemorra
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Publication number: 20090164742Abstract: Systems and methods of selective data mirroring are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a device is disclosed that includes a data storage medium and a controller operably coupled to the data storage medium. The controller configured to selectively enable a data mirroring function to copy data in a first data storage location of the data storage medium to one or more second data storage locations of the data storage medium when the one or more second data storage locations do not have valid primary data stored to them.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, LLC.Inventors: JOSEPH L. WACH, TIMOTHY RICHARD FELDMAN
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Publication number: 20090002863Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring data operations at a data storage device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a first read access request to access first data and a second read access request to access second data may be determined. A first physical block address containing the first data and a second physical block address containing the second data may be determined. The first physical block address and the second physical block address may not be located contiguously. The first data and the second data may be stored in contiguous physical block addresses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Edwin Scott Olds
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Publication number: 20080313396Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring logical block address (LBA) activity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a pattern of a data storage device may be monitored. An LBA may be detected that is accessed based on the pattern. The LBA may be added to a list of LBAs stored in a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Timothy Richard Feldman, Edwin Scott Olds, Jonathan Williams Haines, Daniel Joseph Coonen