John H Strasser

8189407, May 29, 2012

Dec 29, 2010

12/981394

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
Jonathan Thatcher - Liberty Lake WA, US
Jeremy Fillingim - Salt Lake City UT, US
David Flynn - Sandy UT, US
Lance Smith - San Jose CA, US
Robert Wood - Nwot CO, US
James Peterson - San Jose CA, US

Fusion-io, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

G11C 5/14

36518909, 36518911

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for improving performance in a non-volatile solid-state storage device. Non-volatile solid-state storage media includes a plurality of storage cells. The plurality of storage cells is configured such that storage cells in an empty state store initial binary values that satisfy a bias. An input module receives source data for storage in the plurality of storage cells of the non-volatile solid-state storage media. Bits of the source data have a source bias that is different from the bias of the plurality of storage cells. A bit biasing module biases the bits of the source data toward the bias of the plurality of storage cells. A write module writes the biased source data to the plurality of storage cells of the non-volatile solid-state storage media.

8315092, Nov 20, 2012

Jan 27, 2011

13/015458

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
David Flynn - Sandy UT, US
Jeremy Fillingim - Salt Lake City UT, US
Robert Wood - Nwot CO, US

Fusion-IO, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

G11C 11/34

36518503, 36518509, 36518511, 36518512, 36518518, 3651852, 36518524, 36518529, 36518533

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining a read voltage threshold for solid-state storage media. A data set read module reads a data set from storage cells of solid-state storage media. The data set is originally stored in the storage cells with a known bias. A deviation module determines that a read bias for the data set deviates from the known bias. A direction module determines a direction of deviation for the data set. The direction of deviation is based on a difference between the read bias of the data set and the known bias. An adjustment module adjusts a read voltage threshold for the storage cells of the solid-state storage media based on the direction of deviation.

8482993, Jul 9, 2013

May 1, 2012

13/461628

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
Jonathan Thatcher - Liberty Lake WA, US
Jeremy Fillingim - Salt Lake City UT, US
David Flynn - Sandy UT, US
Lance Smith - San Jose CA, US
Robert Wood - Niwot CO, US
James Peterson - San Jose CA, US

Fusion-io, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

G11C 5/14

36518909, 36518911, 36518916

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for improving performance in a non-volatile solid-state storage device. Non-volatile solid-state storage media includes a plurality of storage cells. An input module receives source data for storage in the plurality of storage cells of the non-volatile solid-state storage media. Some or all of the bits of the source data are transformed to take into account a voltage level of an empty state of the plurality of storage cells. A write module writes the transformed source data to the plurality of storage cells of the non-volatile solid-state storage media.

20120203986, Aug 9, 2012

Feb 13, 2012

13/372430

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
David Flynn - Sandy UT, US
Robert Wood - Nwot CO, US

FUSION-IO - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 12/00

711158, 711E12002

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing operations for data storage media. An adjustment module interrupts or otherwise adjusts execution of an executing operation on the data storage media. A schedule module executes a pending operation on the data storage media in response to adjusting execution of the executing operation. The pending operation comprises a higher execution priority than the executing operation. The schedule module finishes execution of the executing operation in response to completing execution of the pending operation.

20130019072, Jan 17, 2013

Jan 19, 2012

13/354215

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
David Flynn - Sandy UT, US
Bill Inskeep - West Valley City UT, US

FUSION-IO, INC. - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 12/00

711154, 711E12001

An adaptive logical storage element comprises a plurality of solid-state storage elements accessible in parallel. The logical storage element includes logical storage units, which may include logical page, logical storage divisions (erase blocks), and so on. Each logical storage unit comprises a plurality of physical storage units. A logical storage unit may include one or more physical storage units that are out-of-service (OOS). The OOS status of logical storage units is tracked by OOS metadata. When data is stored on the logical storage element, padding data is provided to physical storage units that are OOS, and valid and/or parity data is provided to in-service physical storage units. A write data pipeline accesses the OOS metadata to insert padding data, and a read data pipeline accesses the OOS metadata to strip padding data.

20130097367, Apr 18, 2013

Oct 9, 2012

13/648009

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
Jonathan Thatcher - Liberty Lake WA, US
Michael Zappe - Wheat Ridge CO, US

Fusion-io, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 12/02

711103

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage. The apparatus, system, and method are provided with a plurality of modules including a cache front-end module and a cache back-end module. The cache front-end module manages data transfers associated with a storage request. The data transfers between a requesting device and solid-state storage function as cache for one or more HCNV storage devices, and the data transfers may include one or more of data, metadata, and metadata indexes. The solid-state storage may include an array of non-volatile, solid-state data storage elements. The cache back-end module manages data transfers between the solid-state storage and the one or more HCNV storage devices.

20130179753, Jul 11, 2013

Mar 4, 2013

13/784705

John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
Bill Inskeep - West Valley City UT, US

FUSION-IO, INC. - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 11/10

714773

A storage module is configured to store data segments, such as error-correcting code (ECC) codewords, within an array comprising two or more solid-state storage elements. The data segments may be arranged in a horizontal arrangement, a vertical arrangement, a hybrid channel arrangement, and/or vertical stripe arrangement within the array. The data arrangement may determine input/output performance characteristics. An optimal adaptive data storage configuration may be based on read and/or write patterns of storage clients, read time, stream time, and so on. Data of failed storage elements may be reconstructed by use of parity data and/or other ECC codewords stored within the array.

20190146867, May 16, 2019

Jan 10, 2019

16/245233

- Dallas TX, US
John Strasser - Syracuse UT, US
Bill Inskeep - West Valley City UT, US

G06F 11/10
G06F 12/02
H04L 12/64
H05K 7/14
H04L 12/46

A storage module is configured to store data segments, such as error-correcting code (ECC) codewords, within an array comprising two or more solid-state storage elements. The data segments may be arranged in a horizontal arrangement, a vertical arrangement, a hybrid channel arrangement, and/or vertical stripe arrangement within the array. The data arrangement may determine input/output performance characteristics. An optimal adaptive data storage configuration may be based on read and/or write patterns of storage clients, read time, stream time, and so on. Data of failed storage elements may be reconstructed by use of parity data and/or other ECC codewords stored within the array.