Patents by Inventor Izhak Afriat

Izhak Afriat 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: 20100106890
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer medium for enforcing one or more cache management policies are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flash memory of a storage device includes a plurality of flash memory dies each flash memory die including a respective cache storage area and a respective main storage area. A determination is made, for data that is received from an external host device to which main storage area the received data is addressed thereby specifying one of the plurality of flash memory dies as a target die for the received data. Whenever the received data is written into a cache storage area before being written into a main storage area, the received data is written into the cache storage area of the specified target die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: SanDisk IL Ltd.
    Inventors: Menahem LASSER, Izhak Afriat, Opher Lieber