SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR HOSTING APPLICATIONS ON A STORAGE ARRAY VIA AN APPLICATION INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK
Granted: April 26, 2012
Application Number:
20120102455
A storage array is disclosed. The storage array may comprise a plurality of storage units configured for providing data storage; a processing module configured for hosting a virtual machine; and an application integration framework provided by the virtual machine. The application integration framework may comprise an application interface configured for interfacing with at least one application running on an application server, where the application server is communicatively connected…
VIRTUAL FUNCTION BOOT IN SINGLE-ROOT AND MULTI-ROOT I/O VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS
Granted: April 26, 2012
Application Number:
20120102491
A method for virtual function boot in a system including a single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) enabled server includes loading a PF driver of the PF of a storage adapter onto the server utilizing the virtual machine manager of the server; creating a plurality of virtual functions utilizing the PF driver, detecting each of the virtual functions on an interconnection bus, maintaining a boot list associated with the plurality of virtual functions, querying the storage adapter for the…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING SOLID-STATE DRIVES AS STORAGE CONTROLLER CACHE MEMORY
Granted: April 26, 2012
Application Number:
20120102268
Methods and systems for using one or more solid-state drives (SSDs) as a shared cache memory for a plurality of storage controllers coupled with the SSDs and coupled with a plurality of storage devices through a common switched fabric communication medium. All controllers share access to the SSDs through the switched fabric and thus can assume control for a failed controller by, in part, accessing cached data of the failed controller in the shared SSDs.
NOVEL MODELING APPROACH FOR TIMING CLOSURE IN HIERARCHICAL DESIGNS LEVERAGING THE SEPARATION OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL ASPECTS OF THE DESIGN FLOW
Granted: April 19, 2012
Application Number:
20120095746
A method of designing an integrated circuit and a model of an integrated circuit block, an electronic design automation tool, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method of designing an integrated circuit includes: (1) generating a timing budget for the integrated circuit employing designer input of the integrated circuit, (2) establishing design constraints for a block of the integrated circuit employing the timing budget, (3) creating…
METHOD FOR MANAGING AND TUNING DATA MOVEMENT BETWEEN CACHES IN A MULTI-LEVEL STORAGE CONTROLLER CACHE
Granted: April 12, 2012
Application Number:
20120089782
A method for managing data movement in a multi-level cache system having a primary cache and a secondary cache. The method includes determining whether an unallocated space of the primary cache has reached a minimum threshold; selecting at least one outgoing data block from the primary cache when the primary cache reached the minimum threshold; initiating a de-stage process for de-staging the outgoing data block from the primary cache; and terminating the de-stage process when the…
INTRA-MODE PREDICTION FOR A VIDEO TRANSCODER
Granted: April 5, 2012
Application Number:
20120082220
A video transcoder for converting an encoded input video bit-stream having one spatial resolution into an encoded output video bit-stream having a lower spatial resolution, wherein learned statistics of intra-mode transcoding are used to constrain the search of intra modes for the output video bit-stream. The statistics of intra-mode transcoding can be gathered, e.g., by applying brute-force downsizing to a training set of video frames and then analyzing the observed intra-mode…
IMPLEMENTING SLEEP LINES IN COMMODITY ETHERNET HARDWARE
Granted: April 5, 2012
Application Number:
20120084590
A first Network Interface Controller operates in a low power mode. The first Network Interface Controller transitions from low power mode to a power-up sequence if a sleep packet in not received from a second Network Interface Controller at the first Network Interface Controller within a predetermined time threshold.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA RECONSTRUCTION AFTER DRIVE FAILURES
Granted: April 5, 2012
Application Number:
20120084600
Methods and systems for data reconstruction following drive failures may include: storing data across two or more drives in one or more data stripes, each data stripe including two or more drive extents; detecting a degradation of a drive containing a drive extent associated with a first data stripe; assigning a reconstruction priority to the drive extent associated with the first data stripe; detecting a degradation of a drive containing a drive extent associated with a second data…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING CODE BLOCKS TO CONSTITUENT DECODER UNITS IN A TURBO DECODING SYSTEM HAVING PARALLEL DECODING UNITS
Granted: March 29, 2012
Application Number:
20120079345
A system for, and method of, assigning code blocks to constituent decoding units in a turbo decoding system having parallel decoding units. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) representing the turbo decoding system as a resource diagram rectangle, (2) representing the code blocks as code block rectangles, (3) mapping the code block rectangles into the resource diagram rectangle and (4) assigning the code blocks to the constituent decoding units based on the mapping.
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM EMPLOYING LOCAL AND GLOBAL INTERLEAVING/DE-INTERLEAVING
Granted: March 29, 2012
Application Number:
20120079340
In one embodiment, a communications system has a write path and a read path. In the write path, a local/global interleaver interleaves a user data stream, and an error-correction (EC) encoder encodes the user data stream to generate an EC codeword. A local/global de-interleaver de-interleaves the parity bits of the EC codeword, and both the original un-interleaved user data and the de-interleaved parity bits are transmitted via a noisy channel. In the read path, a channel detector…
FIRMWARE TRACING IN A STORAGE DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Granted: March 29, 2012
Application Number:
20120079324
A method includes generating trace data at a device associated with data communication to and from a computer storage device through an appropriate communication link therefor and transmitting the trace data through the appropriate communication link. The trace data is configured to enable debugging of a set of instructions associated with the device. The method also includes capturing the trace data transmitted through the appropriate communication link through a protocol analyzer, a…
ANALYZING SUB-LUN GRANULARITY FOR DYNAMIC STORAGE TIERING
Granted: March 22, 2012
Application Number:
20120072662
A method for metadata management in a storage system may include providing a metadata queue of a maximum size; determining whether the metadata for a particular sub-LUN is held in the metadata queue; updating the metadata for the particular sub-LUN when the metadata for the particular sub-LUN is held in the metadata queue; inserting the metadata for the particular sub-LUN at the head of the metadata queue when the metadata queue is not full and the metadata is not held in the metadata…
METHOD FOR COUPLING SUB-LUN LOAD MEASURING METADATA SIZE TO STORAGE TIER UTILIZATION IN DYNAMIC STORAGE TIERING
Granted: March 22, 2012
Application Number:
20120072670
A method for metadata management in a storage system configured for supporting sub-LUN tiering. The method may comprise providing a metadata queue of a specific size; determining whether the metadata for a particular sub-LUN is cached in the metadata queue; updating the metadata for the particular sub-LUN when the metadata for the particular sub-LUN is cached in the metadata queue; inserting the metadata for the particular sub-LUN to the metadata queue when the metadata queue is not full…
METHOD FOR DETECTING A FAILURE IN A SAS/SATA TOPOLOGY
Granted: March 22, 2012
Application Number:
20120072772
A method for detecting a failure in a serial topology. The method may comprise sending a predetermined pattern to a plurality of devices communicatively connected to an initiator in a serial topology; receiving a return result from each of the plurality of devices in response to the predetermined pattern; recognizing a problem associated with a particular device among the plurality of devices, the problem being recognized based on the return result from the particular device; sending a…
DESIGN-FOR-TEST TECHNIQUE TO REDUCE TEST VOLUME INCLUDING A CLOCK GATE CONTROLLER
Granted: March 22, 2012
Application Number:
20120072797
Clock control circuitry for an integrated circuit, a method of testing an integrated circuit having a clock gate, an integrated circuit and a library of cells including the clock control circuitry are provided. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes: (1) a clock gate configured to apply a clock signal to at least a first scan chain of the integrated circuit, (2) combinational logic coupled to an input of the clock gate and (3) Design-for-Test logic located external to the…
SAS SMP TUNNELING USING SCSI COMMANDS
Granted: March 22, 2012
Application Number:
20120072924
A storage system comprising: a SCSI initiator being configured for receiving a data request and providing a SMP request corresponding to the data request, the SCSI initiator being further configured for encapsulating the SMP request into a first SCSI command; a SCSI target being configured for receiving the first SCSI command, the SCSI target being further configured for recognizing encapsulation of the SMP request and obtaining the SMP request from the first SCSI command; and an SMP…
LOW COST COMPARATOR DESIGN FOR MEMORY BIST
Granted: March 15, 2012
Application Number:
20120063248
A comparator determines the fidelity of a response vector received from a memory under test. The comparator includes a first logic gate configured to output a first value that is the logical OR of a first proper subset of bits of the response vector. A second logic gate is configured to output a second value that is the logical NAND of the proper subset of bits. A first multiplexer is configured to select between the first and second values based on the value of a first bit of a check…
BUILT-IN SELF-TEST CIRCUIT-BASED RADIATION SENSOR, RADIATION SENSING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCORPORATING THE SAME
Granted: March 15, 2012
Application Number:
20120065919
A radiation sensor for an integrated circuit (IC), a radiation sensing method and an IC incorporating the sensor or the method. In one embodiment, the radiation sensor includes: (1) a built-in self-test (BIST) controller configured to provide BIST with respect to main IC circuitry of the IC and (2) a radiation sensor controller coupled to the main IC circuitry and the BIST controller and configured to identify temporarily inactive portions of the main IC circuitry and cause the BIST…
Peripheral Device, Program and Methods for Responding to a Warm Reboot Condition
Granted: March 15, 2012
Application Number:
20120066429
A computing system peripheral device compatible with the peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-E) protocol responds to a DL_DOWN command primitive by configuring a general-purpose input/output (GPIO) port into a known state without invoking a GPIO module reset. In addition, select resources are excluded from resources on the peripheral device that are issued a reset command. The select resources can include a GPIO module, a memory element and a PCI-E SERDES module. After the…
ADAPTIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REGULATION OF YELLOW TRAFFIC IN A NETWORK
Granted: March 1, 2012
Application Number:
20120051218
A method, an apparatus and/or a system to regulate yellow traffic in a network is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes quantifying, an extent of violation of a transmission rate of a data traffic relative to a committed bandwidth profile in a network. The data traffic is generated through a client device coupled to the network. The method also includes regulating, a volume of the data traffic associated with a particular level of compliance relative to the committed bandwidth…
