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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945815 | System and method for managing memory errors in an information handling system A method for handling memory defects during the POST phase and memory calibration in single processor and multiprocessor information handling systems is disclosed whereby information regarding the location of a known memory defect is utilized to optimize the perform... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941705 | Computer system to use memory having defective memory cell and control method thereof A computer system having a plurality of devices including a data storage part which includes a plurality of cells to store data, and a controller to inspect whether there is a defective cell in the data storage part if a condition to execute a cell inspection functi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934130 | System and method for managing non-volatile memory based on health An invention is provided for managing non-volatile memory having a plurality of memory blocks and a plurality of error values associated with the memory blocks. The method includes recording an error value indicating a number of errors occurring in a memory block du... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925930 | Storage control system and control method for storage control system A storage control system of the present invention can carry out settings for a storage device using redundantly configured access channels. A controller of the storage control system can access a storage device using a plurality of access channels of system A and sy... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921334 | Program and method for error determination, and electronic apparatus There is provided an error determination program executed by an information processor included in an electronic apparatus that includes a device installation section capable of installing any one of a plurality of devices having different formats, a host controller ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913122 | System and method for on-board diagnostics of memory modules A memory hub includes an on-board diagnostic engine through which diagnostic testing and evaluation of the memory system can be performed. The memory hub includes a link interface for receiving memory requests for access to memory devices of the memory system and a ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890811 | Method and apparatus for improved memory reliability, availability and serviceability Methods and apparatus dynamically reconfigure storage or channel capacities in a memory system. A fully-buffered dual in-line memory module (DIMM) is configured for a particular storage capacity and a particular channel capacity. An error may be detected at a memory... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882400 | Information processing apparatus, storage medium supporting device, and identifier changing method An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to accurately manage a plurality of storage media realized by cooperation with each other while maintaining a combination or combinations thereof, and manage data for each OS. A storage media supporting dev... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7870435 | Memory device and method for repairing a semiconductor memory A block repair device is used in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) having a primary array with a defective cell and a redundant array with a redundant row. The block repair device stores a block repair configuration that determines the dimensions (e.g., the numb... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861122 | Monitoring health of non-volatile memory A host processor is coupled to a memory controller and configurable to retrieve from the memory controller information indicative of the health of a non-volatile memory device operatively coupled to the memory controller. A host system uses the information to monito... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856576 | Method and system for managing memory transactions for memory repair In one embodiment, a controller for an associative memory having n ways contains circuitry for sending a request to search an indexed location in each of the n ways for a tag, wherein the tag and an index that is used to denote the indexed location form a memory add... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856577 | Command language for memory testing A memory testing system for testing a plurality of memory locations in an electronic memory device is provided. The system includes a programmable memory device integrated into the electronic memory device capable of receiving and storing a compiled memory testing p... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853830 | Apparatus and method for providing error notification in a wireless virtual file system An apparatus (20) provides a dynamically-generated audio and/or video error file upon the occurrence of an error condition in a wireless virtual file system (100). According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus (20) includes a host interfac... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849365 | Method for reducing host device to electronic device communication errors This invention is directed to allowing an electronic device with a failed file system to dynamically direct a host device to reformat it, by making the storage component appear to be in its unformatted state. Upon detection of file system failure, the device writes ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840848 | Self-healing cache operations A method, apparatus and program storage device for performing a self-healing cache process is described. At least one error affecting a cache is detected. The cache may have a matching address tag for a fetching operation. Based on the type of error, a self-healing ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840847 | Sector shift read corruption detection A method and system are disclosed to quickly and inexpensively (in terms of computational overhead) detect when a data shift corruption event or a short read has occurred and to transparently retry the failed read operation. The method seeds the memory read buffer, ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836349 | Storage control device and enclosure-unit power control method The storage control device of the present invention switch-connects each of enclosures and individually stops the transmission of power to the enclosures that are not being accessed in order to reduce the power consumption amount. A plurality of additional enclosure... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7823025 | Method and apparatus for testing a memory device Disclosed is a method for testing a memory device with a long-term clock signal by automatically performing precharge only after activation. In this method, a signal for precharging the banks of the memory device is automatically generated only at the falling edge o... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7823024 | Memory hub tester interface and method for use thereof A memory hub including a memory test bridge circuit for testing memory devices. Test command packets are coupled from a tester to the memory hub responsive to a test clock signal having a test clock frequency. The test bridge circuit generates memory device command,... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818627 | Systems and methods for gathering debug information System and methods are disclosed for gathering debug information of a storage system of a computer system without requiring additional external hardware directly connected to the controller of the storage system. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809990 | Method and apparatus for monitoring failure of memory device, and computer product A memory data reader of a magnetic tape library device reads from a memory of a magnetic tape cartridge containing a magnetic tape, information pertaining to data read from or written to the magnetic tape by a magnetic tape drive device. A maintenance/replace determ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802148 | Self-correcting memory system A network device for correcting corrupted memory locations. The network device includes a plurality of free pointers, each of which points to a free memory location. The network device also includes a plurality of cell locations for storing information, each of the ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797583 | Fault diagnosis of serially-addressed memory modules on a PC motherboard A test adaptor board connects to a personal computer (PC) motherboard that tests a memory module in a test socket. A standard memory module socket is removed from a target DRAM module slot on the component side and the test adaptor board connects to the target DRAM ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797582 | Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system A method for tracking changes on a primary volume in a continuous data protection system writes data to the primary volume. A copy of the data is written to a secondary volume, the secondary volume including all writes made to the primary volume. Each write made to ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788541 | Apparatus and method for identifying disk drives with unreported data corruption A RAID controller uses a method to identify a storage device of a redundant array of storage devices that is returning corrupt data to the RAID controller. The method includes reading data from a location of each storage device in the redundant array a first time, a... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783929 | Controller for a disk, disk enclosure device, disk array apparatus, method for detecting a fault of disk enclosure device, and signal-bearing medium A method and structure for a controller for a memory unit includes a switch that provides a first identification code for the memory unit and a comparator that compares the first identification code with at least a second identification code for the memory unit.... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7765433 | Technique for performing disaster rehearsal for a storage area network utilizing a replication appliance A technique for disaster rehearsal testing in storage area network (SAN) utilizing a replication appliance is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for disaster rehearsal testing of a secondary storage area netw... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747903 | Error correction for memory Methods and devices operate to apply and provide differing levels of error correction within a multi-level, non-volatile memory. In an example, the differing level of error correction is provided within one page of a row of multi-level cells relative to other pages ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743284 | Method and apparatus for reporting storage device and storage system data A method for providing data regarding a storage system comprising storage devices is described herein. A storage management module of an operating system of the storage system may be used for servicing (e.g., monitoring or testing) storage devices according to servi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743283 | Dynamically modifying parameters for servicing of storage devices A storage management module is described herein for servicing, according to servicing parameters, storage devices of a storage system that are exhibiting errors, the servicing parameters being contained and read from an external parameters file (rather than being en... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730357 | Integrated memory system An embodiment of the present invention relates to an integrated memory system comprising at least a non-volatile memory and an automatic storage error corrector, and wherein the memory is connected to a controller by means of an interface bus. Advantageously, the sy... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730358 | Stress testing method of file system A stress testing method of a file system includes traversing local or network storage devices with a drive letter; detecting a network mapping path of the network storage devices; calculating an absolute path of all the storage devices through a mounted point and a ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7707460 | Method, apparatus and program storage device for protecting data writes in a data storage device A method, apparatus and program storage device for protecting data write operations against write failures in a data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a storage medium, a write cache including a copy of data written to the storage medium, ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702961 | Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and a method of managing data using the information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group, and a spare area which is allocated at the start portion or the end portion of the ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698599 | Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and a method of managing data using the information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group, and a spare area which is allocated at the start portion or the end portion of the ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694186 | Method for actuating a system on chip (SOC) and computer system medium thereof A method for actuating a system on chip (SOC) includes the following steps. First, determine whether the SOC is connected to a computer system via a communication connection. If no, determine whether a non-volatile memory of the SOC has an initial flag signal. If ye... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689869 | Unit, method and program for detecting imprecise data When data are transferred to a cache from disk drives, through a back end I/F unit, a redundant code verifier of a data path controller compares write-history information (a Destaging Counter (DC) value) embedded in a redundant code of the data with a DC value embed... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676700 | System for testing hard disks A system for testing hard disks includes a hard disk testing device and a computer. The computer has a mainboard and a key-press controller. The hard disk testing device connects with the mainboard and includes: a hard disk interface configured for connecting one or... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7657794 | Data storage device and error recovery method Embodiments of the invention provide an error recovery scheme that allows a data read/write error in a data storage device to be processed within a short time, and a data storage device that attempts error recovery using the error recovery scheme. In one embodiment,... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657795 | Method and apparatus for writing to a target memory page of a memory A method and apparatus for writing to a target memory page of a memory has an initial memory page having allocated thereto a marking memory containing information whether a content of the initial memory page is written correctly to the target memory page. The appara... | 02/02/2010 |
