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Michael C. Krofcheck

Examiner (ID: 650)

Most Active Art Unit
2138
Art Unit(s)
2188, 2138, 2186
Total Applications
806
Issued Applications
640
Pending Applications
50
Abandoned Applications
139

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/020662
Data validity tracking in a non-volatile memory Sep 13, 2020 Issued
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17/011906
Addressing for disaggregated memory pool Sep 2, 2020 Issued
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17/008491
Storage array invalidation maintenance Aug 30, 2020 Issued
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17/006565
Prevention of RAM access pattern attacks via selective data movement Aug 27, 2020 Issued
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16/994233
Hybrid memory systems with cache management Aug 13, 2020 Issued
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16/984522
Storing de-duplicated data with minimal reference counts Aug 3, 2020 Issued
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16/984429
Acceleration of data queries in memory Aug 3, 2020 Issued
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16/938225
System and method of backing up data from a volatile memory medium to a non-volatile memory medium Jul 23, 2020 Issued
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16/909617
Logical to physical data storage mapping Jun 22, 2020 Issued
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16/903196
Plane programming scheme for non-volatile memory with large block sizes Jun 15, 2020 Issued
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16/897463
System and method for cooperative tail promotion in a log buffer Jun 9, 2020 Issued
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16/890402
Method, device, and computer program product for managing storage system Jun 1, 2020 Issued
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16/890368
Method for storage management, electronic device and computer program product Jun 1, 2020 Issued
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16/884566
System and method for optimizing non-volatile random access memory usage May 26, 2020 Issued
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16/882395
Victim cache with dynamic allocation of entries May 21, 2020 Issued
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16/882374
Aggressive write flush scheme for a victim cache May 21, 2020 Issued
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16/882234
Methods and apparatus to reduce read-modify-write cycles for non-aligned writes May 21, 2020 Issued
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16/878365
METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING STORAGE DEVICE May 18, 2020 Abandoned
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16/875981
Dynamic quantization in storage devices using machine learning May 14, 2020 Issued
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16/846485
Local cached data coherency in host devices using remote direct memory access Apr 12, 2020 Issued
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