Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Truong Nguyen

Wenzhou Chen

Leonid Baryudin

Christopher Nathan Watson

Phillip Peterson

Tyler Huston Doornenbal

Christopher J Douglass

Changho Choi

Wentao Wu

Dan Zhang

Sujan Biswas

Jingyu Kang

Melky Arputharaja Siluvainathan

Kevin Kim

Horng-Li Yeh

Charles Tang

An opportunistic storage service, or system, identifies currently unused storage capacity on a plurality of physical storage components of computing devices dispersed throughout a provider network. In some embodiments, the currently unused storage capacity is provisioned as primary storage, but is not currently being used to store primary storage data. The opportunistic storage service advertises at least a portion of the currently unused storage capacity as opportunistic storage capacity and provisions the opportunistic storage capacity subject to revocation if additional storage capacity of the physical storage components is needed to store primary storage data to fulfill a primary storage commitment.

Opportunistic storage service

An adaptive read algorithm for accessing information stored on a nonvolatile medium. The nonvolatile medium can be organized as a plurality of storage units. A method of servicing a read request to the nonvolatile medium can include recording a history of read-retries for read requests to individual storage units of the nonvolatile medium. The method can include adapting a read algorithm for a read request to a particular storage unit based on the history of the read-retries for the read requests to the individual storage units of the nonvolatile medium.

Adaptive read algorithm for a nonvolatile medium

A method includes: collecting a stream attribute associated with each of a plurality of streams to a non-volatile memory; storing the stream attribute in a repository; and selecting a victim stream among the plurality of streams based on the stream attribute. The stream attribute can be one or more of a time stamp, an updated frequency, and an amount of data written to each of the plurality of streams.

Victim stream selection algorithms in the multi-stream scheme

An electronic system includes a control unit configured to generate a firmware register and store a system health information to the firmware register; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit, configured to retrieve at least a portion of the system health information and communicate the portion of the system health information in response to a singular read request independent of an operational status of a host device.

Electronic system with health monitoring mechanism and method of operation thereof

Embodiments of the inventive concept include a boot loader update firmware (), a system and method for producing the boot loader update firmware (), and a method for using the boot loader update firmware () to update a boot loader module () in a device (). The boot loader update firmware () can include logic () to install firmware () in non-volatile memory (). The firmware () can include a binary image () of the updated boot loader module (). When the device () is rebooted, the firmware () is activated, which can then copy the binary image) into non-volatile memory (). When the device () is rebooted again, the updated boot loader module () is activated.

Field update of boot loader using regular device firmware update procedure

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Truong Nguyen