Patents by Inventor Simon D. Ramage

Simon D. Ramage 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: 20190042112
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a data storage controller that may include a non-volatile memory, and a processor coupled with the non-volatile memory to perform a scan of a plurality of non-volatile memory dies in a multi-die memory package to detect one or more defective non-volatile memory dies, where an individual non-volatile memory die of the plurality of non-volatile memory dies is defective if the individual non-volatile memory die has a number of bad blocks that exceeds a predefined threshold, and store one or more defective die indicators in a die topology in the non-volatile memory based at least in part on the scan, where the one or more defective die indicators correspond to the one or more defective non-volatile memory dies. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Sarvesh Varakabe Gangadhar, Feng Zhu, Xin Guo, Simon D. Ramage, Ning Wu, Robert E. Frickey, III
  • Patent number: 10095432
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a command for a storage device may be received, wherein the command comprises a plurality of stages. Power for the plurality of stages of the command may be dynamically allocated, wherein power for a first stage of the command is allocated first, and power for each remaining stage of the command is allocated after a preceding stage is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Donia Sebastian, Simon D. Ramage, Curtis A. Gittens, Scott Nelson, David B. Carlton, Kai-Uwe Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180101323
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a command for a storage device may be received, wherein the command comprises a plurality of stages. Power for the plurality of stages of the command may be dynamically allocated, wherein power for a first stage of the command is allocated first, and power for each remaining stage of the command is allocated after a preceding stage is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Donia Sebastian, Simon D. Ramage, Curtis A. Gittens, Scott Nelson, David B. Carlton, Kai-Uwe Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9727267
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a command for a storage device may be received, wherein the command comprises a plurality of stages. Power for the plurality of stages of the command may be dynamically allocated, wherein power for a first stage of the command is allocated first, and power for each remaining stage of the command is allocated after a preceding stage is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Donia Sebastian, Simon D. Ramage, Curtis A. Gittens, Scott Nelson, David B. Carlton, Kai-Uwe Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9417684
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating power governance of non-volatile memory devices using a power governing mechanism employed at a computing device according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes maintaining a credit pool having a plurality of credits to be released to a plurality of memory channels associated with a plurality of non-volatile memory devices. The plurality of credits may be used to provide sufficient power to perform memory operations associated with a computing device. The method may further include receiving a credit request having a petition to obtain one or more credits for a memory channel of the plurality of memory channels to facilitate performance of a memory operation, determining whether the one or more credits are available in the credit pool, and retrieving the one or more credits from the credit pool, if the one or more credits are available in the credit pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Simon D. Ramage, Jason A. Gayman, Joerg Hartung, Curtis A. Gittens, Sowmiya Jayachandran, Richard P. Mangold
  • Publication number: 20130275781
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating power governance of non-volatile memory devices using a power governing mechanism employed at a computing device according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes maintaining a credit pool having a plurality of credits to be released to a plurality of memory channels associated with a plurality of non-volatile memory devices. The plurality of credits may be used to provide sufficient power to perform memory operations associated with a computing device. The method may further include receiving a credit request having a petition to obtain one or more credits for a memory channel of the plurality of memory channels to facilitate performance of a memory operation, determining whether the one or more credits are available in the credit pool, and retrieving the one or more credits from the credit pool, if the one or more credits are available in the credit pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Simon D. Ramage, Jason A. Gayman, Joerg Hartung, Curtis A. Gittens, Richard P. Mangold