Patents by Inventor Venkata S. Surampudi

Venkata S. Surampudi 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).

  • Detection and error-handling of high error rate blocks during copyback
    Patent number: 11145389
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to control a persistent storage media including a first media to store one or more source blocks of data and a second media to store one or more destination blocks of data, determine if an error rate associated with a read of a particular destination block of the one or more destination blocks exceeds a threshold error rate, identify a particular source block of the one or more source blocks which corresponds to erroneous data in the particular destination block, determine which of the particular source block and the particular destination block is a failed block, and retire the failed block. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shankar Natarajan, Sriram Natarajan, Arun S. Athreya, Venkata S. Surampudi
  • DETECTION AND ERROR-HANDLING OF HIGH ERROR RATE BLOCKS DURING COPYBACK
    Publication number: 20200105363
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to control a persistent storage media including a first media to store one or more source blocks of data and a second media to store one or more destination blocks of data, determine if an error rate associated with a read of a particular destination block of the one or more destination blocks exceeds a threshold error rate, identify a particular source block of the one or more source blocks which corresponds to erroneous data in the particular destination block, determine which of the particular source block and the particular destination block is a failed block, and retire the failed block. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shankar Natarajan, Sriram Natarajan, Arun S. Athreya, Venkata S. Surampudi