Patents by Inventor Alex MOHANDAS

Alex MOHANDAS 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).

  • Publication number: 20200393975
    Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device, and a controller that receives a write command, data, and a signature associated with the data from an external device, generates a first hash value from the data, generates a second hash value from the signature, generates an output hash value based on the first hash value and the second hash, and detects whether the data received from the external device are previously written in the nonvolatile memory device, by using the output hash value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: SHIVA PAHWA, ALEX MOHANDAS
  • Publication number: 20180032275
    Abstract: In a method of operating a SSD device, which includes a nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of memory blocks, the plurality of memory blocks is operated in a single level cell (SLC) mode, an access pattern for each of a plurality of data units stored in each of the plurality of memory blocks of the nonvolatile memory device is periodically analyzed, an operation mode of at least one of the plurality of memory blocks is switched to a multi level cell (MLC) mode based on the analysis result, and at least one of data units is moved to a memory block operating in the MLC mode based on the analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Shiva PAHWA, Alex MOHANDAS