ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,160, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Bandwidth averaging in a stochastic system" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of maximizing the possible bandwidth of device, utilize time slice credits (TSC), to ensure bandwidth average over a sliding window. When the average is ensured over a sliding window, the device should not care when the host decides to sample a 100 mSec for example, as the average will always be correct. By utilizing set percentage of predetermined allotment for the average bandwidth req...