Patents by Inventor Samuel E. Bradshaw

Samuel E. Bradshaw 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: 20220138102
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses to intelligently migrate content involving borrowed memory are described. For example, after the prediction of a time period during which a network connection between computing devices having borrowed memory degrades, the computing devices can make a migration decision for content of a virtual memory address region, based at least in part on a predicted usage of content, a scheduled operation, a predicted operation, a battery level, etc. The migration decision can be made based on a memory usage history, a battery usage history, a location history, etc. using an artificial neural network; and the content migration can be performed by remapping virtual memory regions in the memory maps of the computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Ameen D. Akel, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Sean Stephen Eilert, Dmitri Yudanov
  • Patent number: 11302407
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a controller to manage memory proximity disturb. The controller identifies a first memory location in response to an access of a second memory location, the first memory location storing a first value. The controller updates a first disturb value by a first amount, the first disturb value representing a cumulative disturb effect on the first value in the first memory location by accesses to a first plurality of memory locations proximate to the first memory location, the first plurality of memory locations including the second memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. McVay, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin Eno
  • Patent number: 11269780
    Abstract: A computer system includes physical memory devices of different types that store randomly-accessible data in a main memory of the computer system. In one approach, data is stored in memory at one or more logical addresses allocated to an application by an operating system. The data is physically stored in a first memory device of a first memory type (e.g., NVRAM). The operating system determines an access pattern for the stored data. In response to determining the access pattern, the data is moved from the first memory device to a second memory device of a different memory type (e.g., DRAM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean S. Eilert, Hongyu Wang, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Shivasankar Gunasekaran, Justin M. Eno, Shivam Swami
  • Patent number: 11256624
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses to intelligently migrate content involving borrowed memory are described. For example, after the prediction of a time period during which a network connection between computing devices having borrowed memory degrades, the computing devices can make a migration decision for content of a virtual memory address region, based at least in part on a predicted usage of content, a scheduled operation, a predicted operation, a battery level, etc. The migration decision can be made based on a memory usage history, a battery usage history, a location history, etc. using an artificial neural network; and the content migration can be performed by remapping virtual memory regions in the memory maps of the computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Ameen D. Akel, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Sean Stephen Eilert, Dmitri Yudanov
  • Publication number: 20220050639
    Abstract: A memory chip having a predefined memory region configured to store program data transmitted from a microchip. The memory chip also having a programmable engine configured to facilitate access to a second memory chip to read data from the second memory chip and write data to the second memory chip according to stored program data in the predefined memory region. The predefined memory region can include a portion configured as a command queue for the programmable engine, and the programmable engine can be configured to facilitate access to the second memory chip according to the command queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Shivam Swami, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno, Ameen D. Akel, Sean S. Eilert
  • Publication number: 20220027285
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses of fine grain data migration in using Memory as a Service (MaaS) are described. For example, a memory status map can be used to identify the cache availability of sub-regions (e.g., cache lines) of a borrowed memory region (e.g., a borrowed remote memory page). Before accessing a virtual memory address in a sub-region, the memory status map is checked. If the sub-region has cache availability in the local memory, the memory management unit uses a physical memory address converted from the virtual memory address to make memory access. Otherwise, the sub-region is cached from the borrowed memory region to the local memory, before the physical memory address is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Dmitri Yudanov, Ameen D. Akel, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean Stephen Eilert
  • Publication number: 20210391007
    Abstract: An example method includes determining a time between writes in place to a particular memory cell, incrementing a disturb count corresponding to a neighboring memory cell by a particular count increment that is based on the time between the writes to the particular memory cell, and determining whether to check a write disturb status of the neighboring memory cell based on the incremented disturb count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Edward C. McGlaughlin, Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Patent number: 11199995
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to be responsive to a time to live requirement for load commands from a processor. For example, a load command issued by the processor (e.g., SoC) can include, or be associated with, an optional time to live parameter. The parameter requires that the data at the memory address be available within the time specified by the time to live parameter. When the requested data is currently in the lower speed memory (e.g., NAND flash) and not available in the higher speed memory (e.g., DRAM, NVRAM), the memory subsystem can determine that the data cannot be made available with the specified time and optionally skip the operations and return an error response immediately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivasankar Gunasekaran, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno, Ameen D. Akel
  • Patent number: 11199977
    Abstract: A memory device having a memory array with a plurality of memory addresses and a controller operably coupled to the memory array is described. The controller is configured to store a sketch comprising d rows and w columns, wherein d and w are positive integers. Each of the d rows corresponds to a different one of d hash functions. The controller is also configured to detect an event associated with a first memory address of the plurality of memory addresses and to hash the first memory address with each of the d hash functions to generate a corresponding d sketch locations. The controller is further configured to adjust, for each of the d sketch locations, a stored sketch value by a first amount corresponding to the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Patent number: 11200115
    Abstract: A memory device having a memory array and a controller operably coupled to the memory array is described. The controller is configured to store a sketch comprising d rows and w columns, wherein d and w are positive integers. Each row corresponds to a different one of d hash functions. The controller is also configured to detect an event associated with a memory address and to hash the memory address with each of the d hash functions to generate a corresponding d sketch locations. The controller is further configured, for each of the d sketch locations, to set a detection window flag, if it is not already set, and to adjust a stored sketch value by an amount corresponding to the event. The controller is also configured to evaluate a summary metric corresponding to the stored sketch value in each of the d sketch locations to determine if a threshold value has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Patent number: 11169930
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses of fine grain data migration in using Memory as a Service (MaaS) are described. For example, a memory status map can be used to identify the cache availability of sub-regions (e.g., cache lines) of a borrowed memory region (e.g., a borrowed remote memory page). Before accessing a virtual memory address in a sub-region, the memory status map is checked. If the sub-region has cache availability in the local memory, the memory management unit uses a physical memory address converted from the virtual memory address to make memory access. Otherwise, the sub-region is cached from the borrowed memory region to the local memory, before the physical memory address is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri Yudanov, Ameen D. Akel, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean Stephen Eilert
  • Publication number: 20210342274
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses to accelerate accessing of borrowed memory over network connection are described. For example, a memory management unit (MMU) of a computing device can be configured to be connected both to the random access memory over a memory bus and to a computer network via a communication device. The computing device can borrow an amount of memory from a remote device over a network connection using the communication device; and applications running in the computing device can use virtual memory addresses mapped to the borrowed memory. When a virtual address mapped to the borrowed memory is used, the MMU translates the virtual address into a physical address and instruct the communication device to access the borrowed memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Ameen D. Akel, Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean Stephen Eilert, Dmitri Yudanov
  • Patent number: 11163490
    Abstract: A memory chip having a predefined memory region configured to store program data transmitted from a microchip. The memory chip also having a programmable engine configured to facilitate access to a second memory chip to read data from the second memory chip and write data to the second memory chip according to stored program data in the predefined memory region. The predefined memory region can include a portion configured as a command queue for the programmable engine, and the programmable engine can be configured to facilitate access to the second memory chip according to the command queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Shivam Swami, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno, Ameen D. Akel, Sean S. Eilert
  • Publication number: 20210335445
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include determining that data in a group of memory cells of a first memory device is to be moved to a spare group of memory cells. The group of memory cells spans a first dimension and a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension and the spare group of memory cells also spans the first dimension and the second dimension. The data is read from the group of memory cells along the first dimension of the group of memory cells. The data is written to the spare group of memory cells along the second dimension of the spare group of memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin Eno
  • Patent number: 11133061
    Abstract: An example method includes determining a time between writes in place to a particular memory cell, incrementing a disturb count corresponding to a neighboring memory cell by a particular count increment that is based on the time between the writes to the particular memory cell, and determining whether to check a write disturb status of the neighboring memory cell based on the incremented disturb count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. McGlaughlin, Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20210271573
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for performing data restore operations in memory. An embodiment includes a memory, and a controller configured to perform a data restore operation on data stored in the memory using a first table and a second table stored in the controller, wherein the first table includes a current mapping of the data stored in the memory that is based on a previous assessment of previous error rates associated with the data stored in the memory, and the second table includes a new mapping of the data stored in the memory that is based on a current assessment of current error rates associated with the data stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno
  • Publication number: 20210263856
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses of distributed computing based on Memory as a Service are described. For example, a set of networked computing devices can each be configured to execute an application that accesses memory using a virtual memory address region. Each respective device can map the virtual memory address region to the local memory for a first period of time during which the application is being executed in the respective device, map the virtual memory address region to a local memory of a remote device in the group for a second period of time after starting the application in the respective device and before terminating the application in the respective device, and request the remote device to process data in the virtual memory address region during at least the second period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ameen D. Akel, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean Stephen Eilert, Dmitri Yudanov
  • Patent number: 11100007
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses to accelerate accessing of borrowed memory over network connection are described. For example, a memory management unit (MMU) of a computing device can be configured to be connected both to the random access memory over a memory bus and to a computer network via a communication device. The computing device can borrow an amount of memory from a remote device over a network connection using the communication device; and applications running in the computing device can use virtual memory addresses mapped to the borrowed memory. When a virtual address mapped to the borrowed memory is used, the MMU translates the virtual address into a physical address and instruct the communication device to access the borrowed memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Ameen D. Akel, Kenneth Marion Curewitz, Sean Stephen Eilert, Dmitri Yudanov
  • Patent number: 11087859
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include determining that data in a group of memory cells of a first memory device is to be moved to a spare group of memory cells. The group of memory cells spans a first dimension and a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension and the spare group of memory cells also spans the first dimension and the second dimension. The data is read from the group of memory cells along the first dimension of the group of memory cells. The data is written to the spare group of memory cells along the second dimension of the spare group of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin Eno
  • Publication number: 20210240398
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to be responsive to a time to live requirement for load commands from a processor. For example, a load command issued by the processor (e.g., SoC) can include, or be associated with, an optional time to live parameter. The parameter requires that the data at the memory address be available within the time specified by the time to live parameter. When the requested data is currently in the lower speed memory (e.g., NAND flash) and not available in the higher speed memory (e.g., DRAM, NVRAM), the memory sub-system can determine that the data cannot be made available with the specified time and optionally skip the operations and return an error response immediately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Shivasankar Gunasekaran, Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno, Ameen D. Akel