Patents by Inventor Vicky Duerk

Vicky Duerk 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).

  • Hard disk drive staggered spin-up mechanism
    Patent number: 8112564
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a host bus adapter (HBA) is disclosed. The HBA includes one or more link layer engines, one or more ports, each of the one or more ports associated with one of the one or more link layer engines and token passing logic having a shift register associated with each of the one or more link layer engines. A first link layer engine enables a first storage device coupled to an associated port to spin-up whenever the first link layer engine detects that a first shift register has a first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Pak-lung Seto
  • Link protocol control for serial protocols
    Publication number: 20070299999
    Abstract: A state machine encoded in state machine instructions is stored in non-volatile memory, and loaded into volatile memory in a hardware engine for use by the hardware engine upon power up or reset. Storing the state machine for a phy reset sequence in non-volatile memory coupled to the hardware engine allows protocol modifications to the state machine to be performed in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Pak-Lung Seto
  • Connection management mechanism
    Publication number: 20070198761
    Abstract: A host device is disclosed. The host device includes a receive frame and primitive sequence processor, a transmitter and a connection manager to open and terminate a connection with a target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Pak-lung Seto
  • STAGGERED SPIN-UP DISABLE MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20070058279
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes one or more storage devices, a host bus adapter (HBA) and a bridging device coupled between the one or more storage device and the HBA. The bridging device includes a register having bits corresponding to each of the one or more storage devices. Each bit indicates whether staggered spin-up is enabled at a corresponding storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Nai-Chih Chang, Pak-lung Seto, Victor Lau
  • Remote node index mapping mechanism for serial attached storage devices
    Publication number: 20060294286
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a host bus adapter (HBA) is disclosed. The HBA includes a first lookup table to retrieve a remote node index (RNI) based upon an address received from a remote device as a component of an open address frame, a second lookup table to receive a remote node context (RNC) based upon the RNI and connection management logic coupled to the second lookup table to control a connection between the HBA and the remote device based upon the RNC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Pak-lung Seto
  • Hard disk drive staggered spin-up mechanism
    Publication number: 20060294269
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a host bus adapter (HBA) is disclosed. The HBA includes one or more link layer engines, one or more ports, each of the one or more ports associated with one of the one or more link layer engines and token passing logic having a shift register associated with each of the one or more link layer engines. A first link layer engine enables a first storage device coupled to an associated port to spin-up whenever the first link layer engine detects that a first shift register has a first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Vicky Duerk, Pak-lung Seto
  • Cascadable cross connect architecture
    Patent number: 6654822
    Abstract: A cross connect with a cascadable architecture may selectively output a switched or an unswitched data stream from a transmission line. Two or more such cross connects may be cascaded by connecting their system side ports for bi-directional communication. Either of the cross connect connected directly to the transmission line or the cross connect connected indirectly to the transmission line through the other cross connect may switch the data stream from the transmission line for output to a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro Suzuki, Bill Check, Vicky Duerk