Patents by Inventor David Ambrose Stortz

David Ambrose Stortz 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: 7451387
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for autonomously identifying and mitigating soft-errors affecting integrated circuit memory storage devices are provided. A soft-error mitigation process is invoked upon finding that an integrated circuit memory device is affected by a parity error. In a staged approach, unused memory regions of the integrated circuit memory device are reinitialized; if a redundant deployment prevails, the subsystem corresponding to the affected integrated circuit memory device is reset; memory regions having copies of contents thereof stored at remote locations are rewritten with obtained copies of the contents; and memory regions storing contents which are generated at run-time are reinitialized. Directed parity error scans are employed at each stage. If the parity error persists, one of the apparatus, and the subsystem corresponding to the affected silicon memory device is reset during a maintenance window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Toby James Koktan, Robert Morton, David Henry Graham, James Wisener, David Motz, Saida Benlarbi, David Ambrose Stortz