Patents by Inventor Yongbin GU

Yongbin GU 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).

  • Methods and systems for managing an accelerator's primary storage unit
    Patent number: 11947821
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing a primary storage unit of an accelerator. The methods include assessing activity of the accelerator; assigning, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a lease to a group of one or more pages of data on the primary storage unit, wherein the assigned lease indicates a lease duration; and marking, in response to the expiration of the lease duration indicated by the lease, the group of one or more pages of data as an eviction candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yongbin Gu, Pengcheng Li, Tao Zhang, Yuan Xie
  • Methods and systems for fetching data for an accelerator
    Patent number: 11372768
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for fetching data for an accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yongbin Gu, Pengcheng Li, Tao Zhang
  • Methods and systems for fetching data for an accelerator
    Patent number: 11231930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for fetching data for an accelerator. The methods include detecting an attempt to access a first page of data that is not stored on a primary storage unit of the accelerator; and responsive to detecting the attempt to access the first page of data: assessing activity of the accelerator; determining, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a prefetch granularity size; and transferring a chunk of contiguous pages of data of the prefetch granularity size from a memory system connected to the accelerator into the primary storage unit, wherein the transferred chunk of contiguous pages of data include the first page of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yongbin Gu, Pengcheng Li, Tao Zhang
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING AN ACCELERATOR'S PRIMARY STORAGE UNIT
    Publication number: 20210157500
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing a primary storage unit of an accelerator. The methods include assessing activity of the accelerator; assigning, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a lease to a group of one or more pages of data on the primary storage unit, wherein the assigned lease indicates a lease duration; and marking, in response to the expiration of the lease duration indicated by the lease, the group of one or more pages of data as an eviction candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yongbin GU, Pengcheng LI, Tao ZHANG, Yuan XIE
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FETCHING DATA FOR AN ACCELERATOR
    Publication number: 20210157593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for fetching data for an accelerator. The methods include detecting an attempt to access a first page of data that is not stored on a primary storage unit of the accelerator; and responsive to detecting the attempt to access the first page of data: assessing activity of the accelerator; determining, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a prefetch granularity size; and transferring a chunk of contiguous pages of data of the prefetch granularity size from a memory system connected to the accelerator into the primary storage unit, wherein the transferred chunk of contiguous pages of data include the first page of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yongbin GU, Pengcheng LI, Tao ZHANG
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FETCHING DATA FOR AN ACCELERATOR
    Publication number: 20210157737
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for fetching data for an accelerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yongbin GU, Pengcheng LI, Tao ZHANG