Patents by Inventor Alessia Marelli

Alessia Marelli has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7328397
    Abstract: A method and system for making error corrections on digital information coded as symbol sequences, for example digital information stored in electronic memory systems or transmitted from and to these systems is described, provides the transmission of sequences incorporating a portion of error corrector code allowing the sequence which is more probably the original transmitted through the calculation of an error syndrome using a parity matrix to be restored when received. Advantageously according to embodiments of the invention, the error code incorporated in the original sequence belongs to a non Boolean group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Lunelli, Rino Micheloni, Roberto Ravasio, Alessia Marelli
  • Publication number: 20070234164
    Abstract: A reading method for a memory device with error-correcting encoding envisages the steps of: carrying out a first reading of a plurality of memory locations (A0, A1, . . . , ALS?1) to generate a first recovered string (S1), and performing a first decoding attempt using the first recovered string (S1). When the first decoding attempt fails, the memory locations are read at least one second time, and at least one second recovered string (S2-SN) is generated. On the basis of a comparison between the first recovered string (S1) and the second recovered string (S2-SN), a modified string (SM) is generated, in which erasures (X) are located, and at least one second decoding attempt is carried out using the modified string (SM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessia Marelli, Valeria Intini, Roberto Ravasio, Rino Micheloni
  • Publication number: 20060010363
    Abstract: A method for correcting errors in multilevel memories, both of the NAND and of the NOR type provides the use of a BCH correction code made parallel by means of a coding and decoding architecture allowing the latency limits of prior art sequential solutions to be overcome. The method provides a processing with a first predetermined parallelism for the coding step, a processing with a second predetermined parallelism for the syndrome calculation and a processing with a third predetermined parallelism for calculating the error position, each parallelism being defined by a respective integer number being independent from the others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Alessia Marelli, Roberto Ravasio, Rino Micheloni
  • Publication number: 20060005109
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting errors in multilevel memories is based upon using a combination of a BCH correction code and a Hamming correction code. The BCH correction code is used for correcting multiple errors, and the Hamming correction code is used for correcting single errors. The Hamming correction code reduces the use of the decoding blocks for the BCH correction codes, which are computationally intensive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessia Marelli, Roberto Ravasio, Rino Micheloni
  • Publication number: 20050050434
    Abstract: A method for making error corrections on digital information coded as symbol sequences, for example digital information stored in electronic memory systems or transmitted from and to these systems is described, providing the transmission of sequences incorporating a portion of error corrector code allowing the sequence which is more probably the original transmitted through the calculation of an error syndrome using a parity matrix to be restored when received. Advantageously according to the invention, the error code incorporated in the original sequence belongs to a non Boolean group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Massimiliano Lunelli, Rlno Micheloni, Roberto Ravasio, Alessia Marelli