Patents by Inventor Zhi Min Dong

Zhi Min Dong 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).

  • Fast-boot list to speed booting an operating system
    Patent number: 9170823
    Abstract: A method for booting to an operating system stored on a solid state drive. The method comprises the steps of (A) determining if a boot list has one or more entries, (B) pre-reading one or more logical block addresses of each of the entries from the boot list, (C) receiving a command from a host, (D) reading the command from a memory internal to the solid state drive if the command is in a cache area of the pre-read logical block addresses and (E) reading the command from a main portion of the solid state drive if the command is not in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Zhao Ma, Rong Yuan, Zhi Min Dong, Lei Zhang, Jian Gang Wu
  • Physical-to-logical address map to speed up a recycle operation in a solid state drive
    Patent number: 9122586
    Abstract: A method for increasing performance of a recycle operation in a solid state drive, comprising the steps of (A) creating an empty physical-to-logical address map in a memory having a plurality of entry locations, (B) filling one of the plurality of entry locations with a physical page address associated with each data write operation to a block, where the block has a plurality of pages, (C) writing the physical-to-logical address map to a last of the plurality of pages during a write to a second to last page of the block and (D) initiating a recycle operation of the block by reading the address map to determine whether the pages contain valid data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Li Zhao Ma, Zhi Min Dong, Rong Yuan, Ning Wang, Xing Rong
  • PHYSICAL-TO-LOGICAL ADDRESS MAP TO SPEED UP A RECYCLE OPERATION IN A SOLID STATE DRIVE
    Publication number: 20140223075
    Abstract: A method for increasing performance of a recycle operation in a solid state drive, comprising the steps of (A) creating an empty physical-to-logical address map in a memory having a plurality of entry locations, (B) filling one of the plurality of entry locations with a physical page address associated with each data write operation to a block, where the block has a plurality of pages, (C) writing the physical-to-logical address map to a last of the plurality of pages during a write to a second to last page of the block and (D) initiating a recycle operation of the block by reading the address map to determine whether the pages contain valid data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Zhao Ma, Zhi Min Dong, Rong Yuan, Ning Wang, Xing Rong
  • FAST-BOOT LIST TO SPEED BOOTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140215199
    Abstract: A method for booting to an operating system stored on a solid state drive. The method comprises the steps of (A) determining if a boot list has one or more entries, (B) pre-reading one or more logical block addresses of each of the entries from the boot list, (C) receiving a command from a host, (D) reading the command from a memory internal to the solid state drive if the command is in a cache area of the pre-read logical block addresses and (E) reading the command from a main portion of the solid state drive if the command is not in the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Zhao Ma, Rong Yuan, Zhi Min Dong, Lei Zhang, Jian Gang Wu