Patents by Inventor Alan M. Chiou

Alan M. Chiou 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).

  • Methods and systems for reconfiguring data memory of embedded controller managed flash memory devices
    Patent number: 8122180
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reconfiguring data memory of an embedded controller managed flash memory device are disclosed. According to one method, using a controller managed flash memory device reconfiguration module configured to execute on a general purpose computing platform separate from a computing platform in which an embedded controller managed flash memory device is located, reconfiguration data to be written to a data memory of the embedded controller managed flash memory device is received from a user and I/O commands for writing the reconfiguration data to an external device are generated. Flash device commands corresponding to the I/O commands are generated. The reconfiguration data is communicated to the data memory of the embedded controller managed flash memory device by sending the flash device commands and the reconfiguration data over a flash device interface of the embedded controller managed flash memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Alan M. Chiou, Wes Shi-Yen Lee, Benjamin Telya, Donald J. Kadish
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECONFIGURING DATA MEMORY OF EMBEDDED CONTROLLER MANAGED FLASH MEMORY DEVICES
    Publication number: 20090204744
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reconfiguring data memory of an embedded controller managed flash memory device are disclosed. According to one method, using a controller managed flash memory device reconfiguration module configured to execute on a general purpose computing platform separate from a computing platform in which an embedded controller managed flash memory device is located, reconfiguration data to be written to a data memory of the embedded controller managed flash memory device is received from a user and I/O commands for writing the reconfiguration data to an external device are generated. Flash device commands corresponding to the I/O commands are generated. The reconfiguration data is communicated to the data memory of the embedded controller managed flash memory device by sending the flash device commands and the reconfiguration data over a flash device interface of the embedded controller managed flash memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SanDisk Corp.
    Inventors: Alan M. Chiou, Wes Shi-Yen Lee, Benjamin Telya, Donald J. Kadish