Patents by Inventor Fumihiro Ooba

Fumihiro Ooba 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).

  • Apparatus and method for allocating virtual memory addresses to continuous physical addresses
    Patent number: 9552292
    Abstract: A storage management apparatus configured to allocate physical addresses in a physical storage area, to virtual addresses in a virtual storage area for storing data is provided. The storage management apparatus includes a processor that executes a process to define, in the physical area, a continuous area having a plurality of continuous physical addresses, and define, based on a virtual address to which a physical address in the continuous area has initially been allocated, an allocation range of virtual addresses for allocating the defined continuous area; and allocate a physical address in the defined continuous area to a virtual address in the defined relation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Fumihiro Ooba, Shuko Yasumoto, Hisashi Osanai, Shunsuke Motoi, Daisuke Fujita, Tetsuya Nakashima, Eiji Hamamoto
  • STORAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STORAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20150378933
    Abstract: A storage management apparatus configured to allocate physical addresses in a physical storage area, to virtual addresses in a virtual storage area for storing data is provided. The storage management apparatus includes a processor that executes a process to define, in the physical area, a continuous area having a plurality of continuous physical addresses, and define, based on a virtual address to which a physical address in the continuous area has initially been allocated, an allocation range of virtual addresses for allocating the defined continuous area; and allocate a physical address in the defined continuous area to a virtual address in the defined relation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Fumihiro Ooba, Shuko Yasumoto, Hisashi Osanai, Shunsuke Motoi, Daisuke Fujita, TETSUYA NAKASHIMA, Eiji Hamamoto