Patents by Inventor Stephen G. FISCHER

Stephen G. FISCHER 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: 20240020009
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n?1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Publication number: 20230401165
    Abstract: An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Publication number: 20230325288
    Abstract: A computing system providing high-availability access to computing resources includes: a plurality of interfaces; a plurality of sets of computing resources, each of the sets of computing resources including a plurality of computing resources; and at least three switches, each of the switches being connected to a corresponding one of the interfaces via a host link and being connected to a corresponding one of the sets of computing resources via a plurality of resource connections, each of the switches being configured such that data traffic is distributed to remaining ones of the switches through a plurality of cross-connections between the switches if one of the switches fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Gunneswara R. Marripudi, Stephen G. Fischer, Zhan Ping, Indira Joshi, Harry Rogers
  • Patent number: 11775462
    Abstract: An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 11768601
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n?1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Patent number: 11693747
    Abstract: A computing system providing high-availability access to computing resources includes: a plurality of interfaces; a plurality of sets of computing resources, each of the sets of computing resources including a plurality of computing resources; and at least three switches, each of the switches being connected to a corresponding one of the interfaces via a host link and being connected to a corresponding one of the sets of computing resources via a plurality of resource connections, each of the switches being configured such that data traffic is distributed to remaining ones of the switches through a plurality of cross-connections between the switches if one of the switches fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gunneswara R. Marripudi, Stephen G. Fischer, Zhan Ping, Indira Joshi, Harry Rogers
  • Publication number: 20220107857
    Abstract: A system includes a host device; a storage device including an embedded processor; and a bridge kernel device including a bridge kernel hardware and a bridge kernel firmware, wherein the bridge kernel device is configured to receive a plurality of arguments from the host device and transfer the plurality of arguments to the embedded processor for data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Stephen G. Fischer, Oscar P. Pinto
  • Patent number: 11204819
    Abstract: A system includes a host device; a storage device including an embedded processor; and a bridge kernel device including a bridge kernel hardware and a bridge kernel firmware, wherein the bridge kernel device is configured to receive a plurality of arguments from the host device and transfer the plurality of arguments to the embedded processor for data processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Stephen G. Fischer, Oscar P. Pinto
  • Patent number: 11169738
    Abstract: A system and method for providing erasure code data protection for an array of solid state drives. The solid state drives are connected to an Ethernet switch which includes a RAID control circuit, or a state machine, to process read or write commands that may be received from a remote host. The RAID control circuit, if present, uses a low-latency cache to execute write commands, and the state machine, if present, uses a local central processing unit, which in turn uses a memory as a low-latency cache, to similar effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sompong Paul Olarig, Vikas K. Sinha, Fred Worley, Ramdas P. Kachare, Stephen G. Fischer
  • Publication number: 20210294494
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n?1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Patent number: 11112972
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, at an acceleration platform manager (APM) from an application service manager (ASM), application function processing information; allocating, by the APM, a first storage processing accelerator (SPA) from a plurality of SPAs, wherein at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs comprises a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs comprising n SPEs, enabling the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA, wherein once enabled, the at least one SPE of the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA is configured to process data based on the application function processing information; determining, by the APM, if data processing is completed by the at least one SPE of the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA; and sending, by the APM, a result of the data processing by the SPEs of the first SPA, to the ASM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Patent number: 11061574
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n?1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Patent number: 11048624
    Abstract: A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may include storage for data and a host interface logic to receive requests from a host machine. The SSD may also include an SSD controller to manage reading data from and writing data to the storage responsive to the requests. The SSD controller may include a flash translation layer to translate logical addresses to physical addresses, a garbage collection logic to perform garbage collection on an erase block that includes a valid page, a stream logic to manage stream characteristics for the data in the valid page, and a restreamer logic to assign the valid page to a new block based on the stream characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Changho Choi, Jason Martineau, Rajinikanth Pandurangan
  • Patent number: 11048581
    Abstract: A system and method for advanced storage device telemetry. The system includes multiple SSDs. I/O is executed on the SSDs in conjunction with a host software. As the I/O is executed, error log information is stored in a persistent memory as well as in a volatile memory. In various embodiments, granular performance information for the execution of the I/O is also stored in a persistent memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vikas K. Sinha, Indira Joshi, Stephen G. Fischer
  • Publication number: 20210141752
    Abstract: An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 10901927
    Abstract: An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 10761775
    Abstract: According to some example embodiments, a method includes receiving, a first command from a host device; determining, if the first command is part of an association group of commands by determining a first value of a first parameter of the first command in an association context table entry is greater than zero, the first parameter including a total number of commands in the association group of commands; determining, a first value of a second parameter of the first command, the second parameter including a tag value identifying the association group of commands; decrementing, the first value of the first parameter of the first command in the association context table entry; determining, if the first value of the first parameter in the association context table entry is zero; and executing, an action indicated in a third parameter of the first command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Oscar P. Pinto, Xuebin Yao, Wentao Wu, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley
  • Publication number: 20200201692
    Abstract: A system includes a host device; a storage device including an embedded processor; and a bridge kernel device including a bridge kernel hardware and a bridge kernel firmware, wherein the bridge kernel device is configured to receive a plurality of arguments from the host device and transfer the plurality of arguments to the embedded processor for data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Stephen G. Fischer, Oscar P. Pinto
  • Publication number: 20200183583
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n?1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz
  • Publication number: 20200183582
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, at an acceleration platform manager (APM) from an application service manager (ASM), application function processing information; allocating, by the APM, a first storage processing accelerator (SPA) from a plurality of SPAs, wherein at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs comprises a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs comprising n SPEs, enabling the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA, wherein once enabled, the at least one SPE of the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA is configured to process data based on the application function processing information; determining, by the APM, if data processing is completed by the at least one SPE of the plurality of SPEs in the first SPA; and sending, by the APM, a result of the data processing by the SPEs of the first SPA, to the ASM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Vijay Balakrishnan, Stephen G. Fischer, Fred Worley, Anahita Shayesteh, Zvi Guz