Patents by Inventor Zhan PING

Zhan PING 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).

  • Patent number: 10360166
    Abstract: A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
  • Publication number: 20190095774
    Abstract: An assembly for a solid-state drive (SSD) includes a base printed circuit board having a PCIe adapter form factor, and at least one U.2 connector that is capable of being connected to a NGSFF device. The NGSFF device includes an NGSFF PCB, a first PCIe connector and a second PCIe connector. The NGSFF PCB is capable of receiving at least one SSD device and includes a first end and a second end in which the first end is opposite the second end. The first PCIe connector is at an edge of the first end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of physical insertion into the at least one U.2 connector on the base PCB, and the second PCIe connector is at an edge of the second end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of receiving a first PCIe connector of another NGSFF PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Zhan PING
  • Publication number: 20190034124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include solid state drive (SSD) multi-card adapters that can include multiple solid state drive cards, which can be incorporated into existing enterprise servers without major architectural changes, thereby enabling the server industry ecosystem to easily integrate evolving solid state drive technologies into servers. The SSD multi-card adapters can include an interface section between various solid state drive cards and drive connector types. The interface section can perform protocol translation, packet switching and routing, data encryption, data compression, management information aggregation, virtualization, and other functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Fred WORLEY, Harry ROGERS, Gunneswara MARRIPUDI, Zhan PING, Vikas SINHA
  • Patent number: 10193377
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a system, comprising: a circuit; an energy harvesting device configured to convert energy from the circuit to electrical energy; an energy storage device configured to store the electrical energy; and a power supply configured to supply power from the energy storage device, and multi-sensor module including such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhan Ping
  • Patent number: 10140063
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include solid state drive (SSD) multi-card adapters that can include multiple solid state drive cards, which can be incorporated into existing enterprise servers without major architectural changes, thereby enabling the server industry ecosystem to easily integrate evolving solid state drive technologies into servers. The SSD multi-card adapters can include an interface section between various solid state drive cards and drive connector types. The interface section can perform protocol translation, packet switching and routing, data encryption, data compression, management information aggregation, virtualization, and other functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fred Worley, Harry Rogers, Gunneswara Marripudi, Zhan Ping, Vikas Sinha
  • Publication number: 20180329844
    Abstract: A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Fred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
  • Patent number: 10114778
    Abstract: A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
  • Publication number: 20180260007
    Abstract: A storage system with temperature control. The system includes a plurality of storage devices such as solid state drives, a system controller such as a baseboard management controller, and one or more cooling fans. Each storage devices includes a controller configured to estimate the heat load in the storage device and/or an effective temperature, resulting from operations performed in the storage device. The system controller employs active disturbance rejection control to adjust the fan speed based on the estimated heat loads, the estimated temperatures, and/or the sensed internal temperatures, of the storage devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: Zhan Ping
  • Publication number: 20180260008
    Abstract: A system and method for active disturbance rejection based thermal control is configured to receive, at a first active disturbance rejection thermal control (ADRC) controller, a first temperature measurement from a first thermal zone. The ADRC controller generates a first output control signal for controlling a first cooling element, wherein the first output control signal is generated according a first estimated temperature and a first estimated disturbance calculated by a first extended state observer (ESO) of the first ADRC controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Zhan Ping, Qinling Zheng
  • Patent number: 10002044
    Abstract: A memory module includes a module error interface, a module data interface, and a plurality of memory device. The module error interface communicates error information a system control path. The module data interface communicates data to and from a main memory path that is separate from the system control path. Each memory device includes a device controller, a device error interface and a device data interface in which the error data interface is separate from the device data interface. Each device controller includes an ECC engine and an ECC controller. The ECC engine corrects an error in data that is read from the corresponding memory device to generate corrected data, generate error information, communicate the error information through the device error interface to the module error interface, and communicate the corrected data through the device data interface to the module data interface. The ECC controller records the error information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaohong Hu, Hongzhong Zheng, Uksong Kang, Zhan Ping
  • Publication number: 20180129553
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a memory module, comprising: a module error interface; and a plurality of memory devices, each memory device coupled to the module error interface, including a data interface and an device error interface, and configured to communicate error information through the device error interface and the module error interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Chaohong HU, Hongzhong ZHENG, Uksong KANG, Zhan PING
  • Patent number: 9946664
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a socket interposer having a plurality of connectors configured to attach to a server board, the server board including: a first processor socket having a processor form factor, and a first memory associated with the first processor socket, a processor inserted into the at least first processor socket, the processor having access to the first memory, and a second processor socket having the processor form factor, and a second memory associated with the second processor socket, wherein the plurality of connectors are configured to fit the processor form factor; and a multi-modal I/O interface having a first mode and a second mode, wherein in the first mode provides processor-to-processor communication, and the second mode provides the first processor with accessibility to the second memory associated with the second processor socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ian P. Shaeffer, Zhan Ping
  • Publication number: 20180052745
    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: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Gunneswara R. Marripudi, Stephen G. Fischer, Zhan Ping, Indira Joshi, Harry Rogers
  • Patent number: 9841904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include a non-volatile memory module array system. The system can include non-volatile memory modules each including a first port, a second port, solid state drives, a switch, and a port configuration logic section. The system can include a bus connected to the first or second ports. The system can include a host to communicate with the non-volatile memory modules via the bus. The port configuration logic section can toggle between a first port configuration associated with the second port and a second port configuration associated with the second port. The port configuration logic section can include a first non-volatile configuration section to store the first and second port configurations associated with the second port. The first port configuration can cause the second port to operate as a downstream port. The second port configuration can cause the second port to operate as an upstream port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhan Ping
  • Patent number: 9804920
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include a plurality of memory ranks, a buffer chip including a rank remap control section configured to remap a rank from among the plurality of memory ranks of the volatile memory module responsive to a failure of the rank, and a dynamic serial presence detect section configured to dynamically update a stated total capacity of the volatile memory module based at least on the remapped rank. In some embodiments, a memory module includes a plurality of memory ranks, an extra rank in addition to the plurality of memory ranks, the extra rank being a spare rank configured to store a new page corresponding to a failed page from among the plurality of ranks, and a buffer chip including a page remap control section configured to remap the failed page from among the plurality of ranks to the new page in the extra rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhan Ping, Matteo Monchiero
  • Publication number: 20170163312
    Abstract: An electronic system includes: a storage device configured to receive a host command including: a system interface unit, a device controller, coupled to the system interface unit, configured to analyze the host command, a near-field wireless transceiver, coupled to the device controller, configured to communicate through a wireless link, and a non-volatile storage array, coupled to the device controller, configured to store user data for transfer through the system interface unit or the near-field wireless transceiver; wherein: the device controller can configure the near-field wireless transceiver for identifying a multi-hop map; and the near-field wireless transceiver is configured to hand-off the host command through the wireless link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Zhan Ping, Yang Seok Ki
  • Publication number: 20160328347
    Abstract: A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Fred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
  • Publication number: 20160259754
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include 2.5 inch hard disk drive form factor solid state drive multi-card adapters that can include multiple M.2 solid state drive cards, which can be incorporated into existing enterprise servers without major architectural changes, thereby enabling the server industry ecosystem to easily integrate M.2 solid state drive technology into servers. Multiple M.2 solid state drive cards and a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) switch can be included within a 2.5 inch hard disk drive form factor solid state drive multi-card adapter. The solid state drive multi-card adapters can be attached to or seated within drive bays of a computer server that supports non-volatile memory express (NVMe) 2.5 inch drives without any changes to the server architecture, thereby providing a straight-forward upgrade path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Zhan PING
  • Publication number: 20160259597
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include solid state drive (SSD) multi-card adapters that can include multiple solid state drive cards, which can be incorporated into existing enterprise servers without major architectural changes, thereby enabling the server industry ecosystem to easily integrate evolving solid state drive technologies into servers. The SSD multi-card adapters can include an interface section between various solid state drive cards and drive connector types. The interface section can perform protocol translation, packet switching and routing, data encryption, data compression, management information aggregation, virtualization, and other functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Fred WORLEY, Harry ROGERS, Gunneswara MARRIPUDI, Zhan PING, Vikas SINHA
  • Publication number: 20160259551
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include a non-volatile memory module array system. The system can include non-volatile memory modules each including a first port, a second port, solid state drives, a switch, and a port configuration logic section. The system can include a bus connected to the first or second ports. The system can include a host to communicate with the non-volatile memory modules via the bus. The port configuration logic section can toggle between a first port configuration associated with the second port and a second port configuration associated with the second port. The port configuration logic section can include a first non-volatile configuration section to store the first and second port configurations associated with the second port. The first port configuration can cause the second port to operate as a downstream port. The second port configuration can cause the second port to operate as an upstream port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Zhan PING