Data management method and apparatus using buffering

• US 10,761,770 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2016
• Issued: 09/01/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jongwook
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Tim T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Harry Z
• Application Number:
  US15/186,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192717A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,534 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/126 and has means for transferring I/O instructions and statuses between control unit and main processor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0656 Data buffering arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A data management method includes allocating a buffer for an application based on request information associated with data requested by the application, storing sensor data corresponding to the request information in the buffer, and transferring the sensor data stored in the buffer to the application.

Claims

1. A data management method comprising:

receiving corresponding quantity information indicating a quantity of data to be transferred from each buffer of buffers at a time point;

allocating the buffers for an application based on request information associated with data requested by the application, wherein the buffers comprise a first buffer dedicated to storing first sensor data generated by a first sensor and a second buffer dedicated to storing second sensor data generated by a second sensor;

storing sensor data corresponding to the request information in the buffers;

synchronizing the first buffer and the second buffer such that a ratio based on an amount of the first sensor data stored in the first buffer and an amount of the second sensor data stored in the second buffer corresponds to a reference ratio requested by the application; and

in response to an amount of the sensor data stored in the first or second buffer exceeding the corresponding quantity, transferring the sensor data stored in the corresponding first or second buffer to the application,

wherein the synchronizing comprises

discarding the first sensor data received in the first buffer until the amount of the second sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the second buffer after the amount of the first sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the first buffer, or

storing the first sensor data received in the first buffer in a spare buffer until the amount of the second sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the second buffer after the amount of the first sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the first buffer.

2. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the request information comprises information comprising any one or any combination of any two or more of a type of the data requested by the application, a type of processing to be performed on the data, or the quantity of the data.

3. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the storing comprises storing the sensor data corresponding to the request information in the buffers based on characteristic information of a corresponding sensor and the request information.

4. The data management method of claim 3, wherein the characteristic information comprises any one or any combination of any two or more of a type of the sensor, a sampling rate of the sensor, or a resolution of the sensor.

5. The data management method of claim 1, wherein each buffer comprises either one or both of a line or a channel.

6. The data management method of claim 5, wherein each buffer comprises a first line and a second line, and

sensor data is received and stored in the second line during a first interval, and previously received and stored sensor data in the first line is transferred to the application during the first interval.

7. The data management method of claim 5, wherein each buffer comprises a first channel in which a first processing is performed on first sensor data and resulting processed first sensor data is stored, and a second channel in which a second processing is performed on second sensor data and resulting processed second sensor data is stored.

8. The data management method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a virtual sensor configured to generate secondary data based on the sensor data.

9. The data management method of claim 8, wherein the virtual sensor is configured to generate the secondary data based on an output of the application.

10. The data management method of claim 8, further comprising:

allocating a third buffer for a second application that requests the secondary data;

storing the secondary data in the third buffer; and

transferring the secondary data stored in the third buffer to the second application.

11. The data management method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling a processing speed of a processor based on an execution time during which the application processes the sensor data and an execution time limit of the application.

12. The data management method of claim 11, wherein the controlling of the processing speed comprises:

acquiring the execution time by measuring a time used by the application to process the sensor data at a current operational speed;

decreasing the processing speed of the processor in response to the execution time being determined to be less than the execution time limit; and

increasing the processing speed of the processor in response to the execution time being determined to be greater than the execution time limit.

13. The data management method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the sensor data based on the request information before the transferring to the application.

14. The data management method of claim 13, wherein the processing comprises performing any one or any combination of any two or more of filtering, delaying, differentiation, interpolation, or decimation on the sensor data.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method of claim 1.

16. A data management apparatus comprising:

a buffer managing device configured to allocate a buffers for an application based on request information associated with data requested by the application, wherein the buffers comprise a first buffer dedicated to storing first sensor data generated by a first sensor and a second buffer dedicated to storing second sensor data generated by a second sensor,

wherein the buffer managing device is further configured to synchronize the first buffer and the second buffer such that a ratio based on an amount of the first sensor data stored in the first buffer and an amount of the second sensor data stored in the second buffer corresponds to a reference ratio requested by the application,

wherein the buffer managing device is further configured to

discard the first sensor data received in the first buffer until the amount of the second sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the second buffer after the amount of the first sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the first buffer, or

store the first sensor data received in the first buffer in a spare buffer until the amount of the second sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the second buffer after the amount of the first sensor data corresponding to the ratio is stored in the first buffer;

a sensor managing device configured to store sensor data corresponding to the request information in the buffers; and

a processing device configured to

receive corresponding quantity information indicating a quantity of data to be transferred from each buffer of the buffers at a time point, and

in response to an amount of the sensor data stored in the first or second buffer exceeding the corresponding quantity, transfer the sensor data stored in the corresponding first or second buffer to the application.

17. The data management apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions to be executed by the processing device.

18. The data management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the request information comprises any one or any combination of any two or more of a type of the data requested by the application, a type of processing to be performed on the data, or the quantity of the data.

19. The data management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the sensor managing device is configured to store the sensor data corresponding to the request information in the buffers based on characteristic information of a sensor and the request information.

20. The data management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the buffers each comprise either one or both of a line or a channel.

21. The data management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing device is further configured to generate a virtual sensor configured to generate secondary data based on the sensor data.

22. The data management apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a speed control device configured to control a processing speed of the processing device based on an execution time during which the application processes the sensor data and an execution time limit of the application.

23. The data management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing device is further configured to process the sensor data based on the request information.