Patents by Inventor James Imoto

James Imoto 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).

  • System and method for autonomous NAND refresh
    Patent number: 8656086
    Abstract: A background scheduler is provided that utilizes low-level communications (e.g., communications with a generic or controller-specific solid state, non-volatile memory driver) to control locking, reading, rewriting and unlocking of pages of data in the non-volatile memory. Such low-level communications cause data to be rewritten to the non-volatile memory independent of the file system in an effort to avoid data loss prior to an estimated data retention period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Avocent Corporation
    Inventors: Arnaldo Zimmermann, James Imoto, Livio Ceci
  • System and Method for Autonomous NAND Refresh
    Publication number: 20120151260
    Abstract: A background scheduler is provided that utilizes low-level communications (e.g., communications with a generic or controller-specific solid state, non-volatile memory driver) to control locking, reading, rewriting and unlocking of pages of data in the non-volatile memory. Such low-level communications cause data to be rewritten to the non-volatile memory independent of the file system in an effort to avoid data loss prior to an estimated data retention period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Arnaldo Zimmermann, James Imoto, Livio Ceci