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: 20190042375
    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: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel E. Bradshaw, Justin M. Eno
  • Publication number: 20180293005
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20180293002
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20180285187
    Abstract: A memory device can include three-dimensional memory entities each including a plurality of two-dimensional memory entities. A controller can read data from the memory at a first resolution and collect error rate information from the memory at a second resolution including a portion of a two-dimensional memory entity. The controller can determine a quantity of two-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the two-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information. The controller can determine a quantity of portions of three-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the portions of three-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information excluding error rate information for portions of the two-dimensional memory entities associated with the quantity of two-dimensional memory entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Justin M. Eno, Samuel E. Bradshaw