Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kunimatsu

Atsushi Kunimatsu 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: 11868618
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11868285
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20230315865
    Abstract: A method of sanitizing a media comprising a controller and a storage device, the method comprising executing, by the controller, a command to erase a data area and an internal area of the storage device, verifying, by the controller, that at least a portion of the data area and at least a portion of the internal area of the storage device has been erased, generating, by the server, a certificate of media sanitization (CoS) of the media, and registering, by the server, an entry representative of the CoS of the media in a distributed ledger or database. Here the storage device is configured to store data received from a host external to the storage device only in the data area, and the storage device is configured to store operational data in the internal area for the operation of the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kazusa TOMONAGA, Yoshihiro OHBA, Atsushi KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230132439
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KUNIMATSU, Kenichi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230078983
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11537291
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11537536
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20210200434
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KUNIMATSU, Kenichi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210141746
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10949092
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 10929315
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10776007
    Abstract: A memory management device of an example of the invention controls writing into and reading from a main memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory and a volatile semiconductor memory in response to a writing request and a reading request from a processor. The memory management device includes a coloring information storage unit that stores coloring information generated based on a data characteristic of write target data to be written into at least one of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory and the volatile semiconductor memory, and a writing management unit that references the coloring information to determines a region into which the write target data is written from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory and the volatile semiconductor memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Masaki Miyagawa, Hiroshi Nozue, Kazuhiro Kawagome, Hiroto Nakai, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Tsutomu Owa, Tsutomu Unesaki, Reina Nishino, Kenichi Maeda, Mari Takada
  • Publication number: 20190294331
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KUNIMATSU, Kenichi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10331356
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 10310747
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes a determination unit, compression unit, selecting unit, write updating unit, writing unit. The determination unit determines whether to compress write data based on specific information. The specific information including at least one of the type, number of accesses, access frequency and importance level of the write data. The compression unit compresses the write data when determining to compress the write data. The selecting unit selects a write region for the write data in nonvolatile memory based on the specific information. The write updating unit updates the specific information. The writing unit writes compressed write data into the write region when determining to compress the write data. The writing unit writes uncompressed write data into the write region when not determining to compress the write data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Owa, Masaki Miyagawa, Atsushi Kunimatsu, Mari Takada
  • Publication number: 20180307632
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10042786
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Kondo, Shoji Sawamura, Kenichi Maeda, Atsushi Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20180095663
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9870155
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kunimatsu, Kenichi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170060418
    Abstract: A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsushi KUNIMATSU, Kenichi MAEDA