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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190812 | Memory system capable of restoring broken information A memory system includes a volatile first storing unit, a nonvolatile second storing unit in which a plurality of memory cells that can store multi-value data are arranged, the memory cells having a plurality of pages, and a controller that performs data transfer be... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190810 | Non-volatile memory apparatus and method for accessing a non-volatile memory apparatus A non-volatile memory apparatus and a method for accessing the non-volatile memory apparatus are provided. The non-volatile memory apparatus comprises a management unit, a look-up table and a controller. The management unit comprises a plurality of data blocks and a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190813 | Terminal apparatus with restricted non-volatile storage medium A terminal apparatus acquires setting information for controlling whether a storage area held by the non-volatile storage medium is to be used or not, from an external apparatus connected via a network, when the terminal apparatus is activated. The terminal apparatu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190811 | Defragmentation of solid state memory A data storage device includes a solid state data storage medium, a set of related data blocks and a controller. The set of related data blocks are non-contiguously stored on the data storage medium and have an original write sequence. The controller, responsive to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185687 | Semiconductor storage device and method of controlling semiconductor storage device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a queuing buffer, a read module, a separating module, a write command issuing module, and a write module. The write command issuing module is configured to add a write address indicated by write po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185685 | NAND flash module replacement for DRAM module An electronic memory module according to the invention provides non-volatile memory that can be used in place of a DRAM module without battery backup. An embodiment of the invention includes an embedded microprocessor with microcode that translates the FB-DIMM addre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185686 | Memory system and a control method thereof A control method for the memory system is suitable for a memory system to process the user data from a host. The control unit divides the address of the storage space of the host into a plurality of logical segments for accessing data. The memory system provides a s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180951 | Memory system and method of controlling the memory system A memory system for transmitting data to and receiving data from a host apparatus includes a semiconductor memory and an access-controlling part. The semiconductor memory has storage areas identified by physical addresses, stores data in each of the storage areas, p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180955 | Computing systems and methods for managing flash memory device A computing system is provided. A flash memory device includes at least one mapping block, at least one modification block and at least one cache block. A processor is configured to perform: receiving a write command with a write logical address and predetermined da... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180954 | Flash management using logical page size Disclosed are techniques for flash memory management, including tracking payload data via one or more data structures configured to define the size of logical pages in a flash memory. In various embodiments, the logical page size may be larger than, equal to, or sma... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180952 | Storage system and data guarantee method A system according to the invention reads/writes data by using a memory device performing a wear leveling. A host 4 reads/writes data from/in a flash memory device 2. A first protection code BC is added to the end of a logical block for every logical b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180953 | Data accessing method for flash memory, and storage system and controller system thereof A data accessing method for accessing data in a plurality of physical page addresses of a plurality of physical blocks in a flash memory chip is provided. The data accessing method includes proving a plurality of logical page addresses for a host system, creating a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180956 | Method for controlling memory card and method for controlling nonvolatile semiconductor memory A method controlling a memory card including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory including plural write areas. The method: formats the plural write areas; creates a temporary file entry describing a reserved region size including a free part of the plural write areas... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176235 | Non-volatile memories with enhanced write performance and endurance Enhanced write performance for non-volatile memories including a memory system that includes a receiver for receiving a data rate of a data sequence to be written to a non-volatile flash memory device. The memory system also includes a physical page selector for sel... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176230 | Wireless flash memory card expansion system A Flash memory card system is disclosed. The Flash memory card system comprises a Flash memory wireless host adapter and a Flash memory bus wireless device. The Flash memory wireless host adapter comprises a Flash memory card connector and a Flash memory controller ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176238 | Command queuing smart storage transfer manager for striping data to raw-NAND flash modules A flash module has raw-NAND flash memory chips accessed over a physical-block address (PBA) bus by a NVM controller. The NVM controller is on the flash module or on a system board for a solid-state disk (SSD). The NVM controller converts logical block addresses (LBA... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176237 | Solid state drive with input buffer A controller executes first processing for writing a plurality of data in a sector unit in the first storing area; second processing for flushing the data stored in the first storing area to the first input buffer in a first management unit twice or larger natural n... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176236 | Memory controller, memory system with memory controller, and method of controlling flash memory Access to flash memories is controlled so that efficiency of data writing and effective utilization of storage area go together. In the access control, priority order, for physical blocks each storing effective data, is managed so that a position of a physical block... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176233 | Using non-volatile memory resources to enable a virtual buffer pool for a database application A buffer pool for a database application is maintained in a volatile main memory component. A control portion that corresponds to a block of application data residing on a non-volatile, asymmetric memory component and that includes a reference to a location of the b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176234 | Multi-write coding of non-volatile memories Multi-write coding of non-volatile memories including a method that receives write data, and a write address of a memory page. The memory page is in either an erased state or a previously written state. If the memory page is in the erased state: selecting a first co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176231 | Methods for handling data updating of flash memory and related memory cards A method for handling data updating of a flash memory is disclosed, in which the flash memory comprises a mother block with a plurality of pages to be updated, and each page comprises a plurality of sectors. In such method, a first data for updating a target page in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176232 | Dedicated interface to factory program phase-change memories A nonvolatile memory device has a dedicated serial programming port to provide a data path to memory storage. A dedicated power pin supplies power for the programming port to receive data and provide storage in the nonvolatile memory while a power pin for normal dev... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176239 | Semiconductor memory card access apparatus, a computer-readable recording medium, an initialization method, and a semiconductor memory card A predetermined number of erasable blocks positioned at a start of a volume area in a semiconductor memory card are provided so as to include volume management information. A user area following the volume management information includes a plurality of clusters. A d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171203 | Faster write operations to nonvolatile memory using FSInfo sector manipulation An embodiment of the present invention includes a digital equipment system having a host for sending write commands to write files having sector information and having a controller device responsive to the commands for writing and updating FSInfo sector information.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171204 | Intelligent solid-state non-volatile memory device (NVMD) system with multi-level caching of multiple channels A flash memory system stores blocks of data in Non-Volatile Memory Devices (NVMD) that are addressed by a logical block address (LBA). The LBA is remapped for wear-leveling and bad-block relocation by the NVMD. The NVMD are interleaved in channels that are accessed ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171205 | Wrap-around sequence numbers for recovering from power-fall in non-volatile memory Incrementing sequence numbers in the metadata of non-volatile memory is used in the event of a resume from power fail to determine which data in the memory is current and valid, and which data is not. To reduce the amount of metadata space consumed by these sequence... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171207 | Adaptive hybrid density memory storage device and control method thereof The present invention discloses a control method of an adaptive hybrid density memory storage device suitable for locating a data to the storage device. The storage device includes a high density memory unit and a low density memory unit. The method is characterized... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171208 | Memory system A memory system includes a DRAM 20 that performs writing and readout in a unit equal to or smaller than a cluster, a NAND memory 10 that performs writing and readout in a page unit, and a management table group in which management information including... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171206 | Avoidance of self eviction caused by dynamic memory allocation in a flash memory storage device The operating firmware of a portable flash memory storage device is stored in the relatively large file storage memory, which is non executable. It is logically parsed into overlays to fit into an executable memory. The overlays can be of differing sizes to organize... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165454 | Recording control apparatus, recording control method and recording apparatus integral with camera The present invention efficiently executes a transfer process from a flash memory to an optical disc. A recording control apparatus includes a UDF file system section that configures a UDF file system on the flash file system of a flash memory and an application for... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166231 | Memory controller, nonvolatile memory device, access device, and nonvolatile memory system The access device 100 designates a file ID without relating different address spaces of an access device 100 and a nonvolatile memory device 200 with each other and manages a data storing state only in a physical address space in the nonvolatile... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166232 | Metrics and management for flash memory storage life Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a system for the management of availability and reliability of flash memory media. In one embodiment, a method of evaluating reliability of flash memory media comprises measuring a flash memory remaining life for eac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166236 | Merging command signals for memory cells Systems and processes may include a memory coupled to a memory controller. Command signals for performing memory access operations may be received. Attributes of the command signals, such as type, time lapsed since receipt, and relatedness to other command signals, ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166228 | Non-volatile memory system and method for reading and storing sub-data during partially overlapping periods A non-volatile memory system and a method for reading data therefrom are provided. The data comprises a first sub-data and a second sub-data. The non-volatile memory system comprises a first storage unit and a second storage unit, adapted for storing the two sub-dat... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166235 | Flash memory storage system A flash memory storage system has a plurality of flash memory devices comprising a plurality of flash memories, and a controller having an I/O processing control unit for accessing a flash memory device specified by a designated access destination in an I/O request ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166230 | Memory systems and methods of initializing the same A memory system is provided includes a host processor, and a plurality of cascade connected memory cards connected to the host processor. Each of the memory cards stores a same default relative card address (RCA) prior to initialization of the memory system. The hos... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166233 | Garbage collection for solid state disks Described embodiments provide a method of recovering storage space on a solid state disk (SSD). An index and valid page count are determined for each block of a segment of an SSD. If the valid page count of at least one block in the segment is zero, a quick clean is... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166234 | Method of fabricating systems including heat-sensitive memory devices A system code is stored in a first nonvolatile memory. The first nonvolatile memory and a second nonvolatile memory are heated during assembly of an electronic device including the first nonvolatile memory and a second nonvolatile memory. The heating is to a tempera... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166229 | Apparatus and method for multi-level cache utilization In some embodiments, a non-volatile cache memory may include a multi-level non-volatile cache memory configured to be located between a system memory and a mass storage device of an electronic system and a controller coupled to the multi-level non-volatile cache mem... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161228 | Apparatus and method for optimized NAND flash memory management for devices with limited resources An apparatus and method for managing memory in low-end electronic devices is provided. The apparatus includes a memory management unit. The memory management unit configured to allocate a portion of random access memory and a portion of flash memory as swap areas. T... | 04/17/2012 |
