Marvell Assigned Patent

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,918,554), developed by Lai Dishi, San Jose, CA, Kang Xinhai, Milpitas, CA, Tsai Kanting, San Jose, CA, and Zhao Qun, Pleasanton, CA, for a “method and apparatus for effectively increasing a command queue length for accessing storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to effectively increasing a command queue length for accessing storage, such as by increasing the Queuing Depth, Q-Depth, of Native Command Queuing, NCQ, Commands. In some implementations, a method can comprise receiving a first command to access a first memory location of a storage device receiving a second command to access a second memory location of a storage device constructing a consolidated command including a memory address and a data transfer count associated with each of the first command and the second command constructing an information command having consolidation information about the consolidated command and communicating the information command and the consolidated command to the storage device for processing by the storage device.“

The patent application was filed on October 4, 2012 (13/645,370)