Allone Solution Assigned Patent

Allone Solution Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,002,106) developed by Liu, Shu-Min, and Hung, Ssu-Wen, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for a “handshaking method of hybrid hard-disk drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A handshaking method adopted by a hybrid HDD has a bridge unit and multiple storages is disclosed. The bridge unit pre-sends X_RDY.sub.p signal of a first packet of a command to one of the storages when a bus is in an idle state, and receives R_RDY.sub.p signal from the storage. After receiving X_RDY.sub.p signal from a host, the bridge unit immediately sends the R_RDY.sub.p signal to the host. The bridge unit then receives other signals from the host continually and sends them to the storage. After the first packet is completely transmitted, the bridge unit pre-sends X_RDY.sub.p signal of next packet, without waiting for the host or the storage to initiate transmitting the next packet, so as to reduce the handshaking time.”

The patent application was filed on April 20, 2016 (15/134,368).