Patents by Inventor James Gemmell

James Gemmell 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: 10146604
    Abstract: Utilities for use in actively detecting the occurrence of bad blocks in NAND flash storage devices and diagnosing the devices as faulty at some point before complete failure of the devices (e.g., before a number of allowable bad blocks has been reached) to allow a corresponding service processor to continue to write to available blocks for a period of time until a replacement NAND flash device can be identified. The utilities may also be utilized to predict the future occurrence of bad blocks in NAND flash devices, such as during the “burn-in” process of the devices (e.g., which tests the quality of the NAND flash device before being placed into service to weed out devices with defects).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David Rudy, George Kechriotis, Patrick O'Grady, James Gemmell
  • Publication number: 20180060148
    Abstract: Utilities for use in actively detecting the occurrence of bad blocks in NAND flash storage devices and diagnosing the devices as faulty at some point before complete failure of the devices (e.g., before a number of allowable bad blocks has been reached) to allow a corresponding service processor to continue to write to available blocks for a period of time until a replacement NAND flash device can be identified. The utilities may also be utilized to predict the future occurrence of bad blocks in NAND flash devices, such as during the “burn-in” process of the devices (e.g., which tests the quality of the NAND flash device before being placed into service to weed out devices with defects).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: David Rudy, George Kechriotis, Patrick O'Grady, James Gemmell
  • Patent number: 8732171
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining suggested queries. A user enters a search website, and the user is identified based on a user identification. Suggested queries are determined based on a group associated with the user. This association is created by extracting queries from data logs, categorizing the queries into groups based on their respective subject matter, associating the user with one or more groups, and determining suggested queries for each group. The suggested queries are communicated for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stelios Paparizos, Chris Anderson, Janine Crumb, James Gemmell, Ajay Nair, Gennadii Tertychnyi, An Yan