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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Todd Lindberg, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Robert Ellis, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Kevin O'Toole, Chandler, AZ (US);

Vivek Shivhare, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0873 (2016.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 9/3877 (2013.01); G06F 12/0873 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of a storage device including a master chip controller and a slave chip processor and memory including a plurality of memory locations are provided which allow for simplified processing of descriptors associated with host commands in the slave chip based on an adaptive context metadata message from the master chip. When the controller receives a host command, the controller in the master chip provides to the processor in the slave chip a descriptor associated with a host command, an instruction to store the descriptor in the one of the memory locations, and the adaptive context metadata message mapping a type of the descriptor to the one of the memory locations. The processor may then process the descriptor stored in the one of the memory locations based on the message, for example, by refraining from identifying certain information indicated in the descriptor. Reduced latency in command execution may thereby result.


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