Shannon Systems Assigned Patent

Shannon Systems Ltd., Shanghai, China, has been assigned a patent (10,089,196) developed by Zhou, Zhen, Shanghai, CN, and Yang, Xueshi, Cupertino, CA, for “methods for reconfiguring a storage controller when control logic fails and apparatuses using the same.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for processing return entities associated with multiple requests in a single ISR, (Interrupt Service Routine) thread, performed by one core of a processing unit of a host device, is introduced. Entities are removed from a queue, which are associated with commands issued to a storage device, and the removed entities are processed until a condition is satisfied.”

The patent application was filed on July 13, 2016 (15/208,654).