Patents by Inventor Paolo Papa

Paolo Papa 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: 10839878
    Abstract: A processing device of a system receives a request to access a selected sector in a memory component. The selected sector is associated with a sector number. The processing device determines a virtual block corresponding to the selected sector. The virtual block is associated with a misalignment factor and a misalignment counter. The processing device determines if the misalignment counter satisfies a threshold criterion. In response to the misalignment counter satisfying the threshold criterion, the processing device generates an updated sector number by shifting the sector number by the misalignment factor and performs the access to the selected sector using the updated sector number. In response to the misalignment counter not satisfying the threshold criterion, the processing device updates the misalignment counter and performs the access to the selected sector using the sector number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Luca Porzio, Marco Di Pasqua, Paolo Papa
  • Publication number: 20200210344
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include systems and methods that utilize a hybrid logical to physical (L2P) caching scheme. A L2P cache and a L2P changelog in a storage device can be controlled for use in write and read operations of a memory system. A page pointer table in the L2P cache can be accessed, for performance of a write operation in the memory system, to obtain a specific physical address mapped to a specified logical block address from a host, where the access is based on the page pointer table loaded into the L2P cache from the L2P changelog. The L2P cache area can be progressively configured with the most frequently accessed page pointer tables in the L2P changelog in the latest host accesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Carminantonio Manganelli, Yoav Weinberg, Alberto Sassara, Paolo Papa, Luigi Esposito, Giuseppe D'Eliseo, Angelo Della Monica, Massimo Iaculo
  • Publication number: 20190066791
    Abstract: Devices and techniques for managing flash memory are disclosed herein. A memory controller may receive a first program request comprising first host data to be written to the flash memory. The flash memory may comprise a number of storage units with each storage unit comprising a number of storage sub-units. If the first host data is less than a remainder threshold, the memory controller may generate a first program data unit comprising the first host data and first log data describing the flash memory. The memory controller may program the program data unit to the first storage unit of the flash memory, where the first log data is written to a first storage sub-unit of the number of storage sub-unit. The memory controller may also store an indication that the first storage sub-unit is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Paolo Papa, Luigi Esposito, Massimo Iaculo, Eric Kwok Fung Yuen, Gerard J. Perdaems