ARM Assigned Patent

ARM Limited, Cambridge, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (9,690,482) developed by Riga, Michele, and Zardini, Maz, Cambridge, Great Britain, for a “data storage organisation technique.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage apparatus and method of storing data in a data storage apparatus are provided, where the data storage apparatus comprises multiple banks for storing data. The multiple banks form multiple bank groups, wherein each bank group comprising more than one bank. A first data item of a received data block is stored at a selected storage location in a selected bank and a subsequent data item of the data block is stored to a further storage location in a different bank according to a sequence of banks. The sequence of banks firstly comprises the selected bank followed by all other banks in the bank group of the selected bank. Moreover the sequence of banks respects a hierarchical pattern, wherein a finer granularity of the hierarchical pattern comprises all banks in a given bank group, and a coarser granularity of the hierarchical pattern comprises the given bank group followed by a different bank group to the given bank group. Access to the data storage apparatus is thereby improved.“

The patent application was filed on November 3, 2014 (14/531,596).