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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:
Dec. 29, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Stec, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);

Inventors:

Umang Thakkar, San Diego, CA (US);

Amir Alavi, Irvine, CA (US);

Lun Bin Huang, San Diego, CA (US);

Dillip K. Dash, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Technologies Santa Ana, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/266 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a storage device including a flash memory, a controller coupled to the flash memory, wherein the controller is configured to store data to the flash memory and a power arbiter unit coupled to the controller and to the flash memory via a plurality of flash channels, wherein the power arbiter unit is configured to receive a plurality of power requests via one or more of the plurality of flash channels and process the plurality of power requests based on a respective priority identifier associated with each of the plurality of power requests. Additionally, a computer-implemented method and power arbiter unit (PAB) are provided.


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