NGD Systems Assigned Patent

NGD Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,067,844) developed by Lu, Guangming, Irvine, CA, for a “method of channel content rebuild in ultra-high capacity SSD.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of restoring user data in a modular solid-state drive including memory channels coupled to respective ones of non-volatile memory cards, the method including: upon physical replacement of a defunct memory card of the non-volatile memory cards with a new non-volatile memory card, and power on of the modular solid-state drive, retrieving a firmware segment and a system segment of the modular solid-state drive from unaffected memory channels of the memory channels not coupled to the new non-volatile memory card, rebuilding a firmware of the modular solid-state drive based on the retrieved firmware segment, rebuilding a data mapping table associated with the non-volatile memory cards based on the retrieved system segment, and restoring full integrity of the user data originally stored on the non-volatile memory cards based on the rebuilt data mapping table and data from the unaffected memory channels.”

The patent application was filed on June 27, 2016 (15/194,527).