Patents by Inventor Obed Iian

Obed Iian 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).

  • Systems, solid-state mass storage devices, and methods for host-assisted garbage collection
    Patent number: 9940040
    Abstract: Systems and methods suitable for assisting data storage on a solid-state mass storage device by furthering interaction between a host and the solid-state mass storage device. The method includes providing data in a target block from a solid-state mass storage device to a host computer system, analyzing the data to identify valid and invalid data of the data in the target block with the host computer system, removing the invalid data, reformatting the valid data into a new data structure with the host computer system, writing the new data structure to the mass storage device, and marking the data in the target block as invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Chaim Schnarch, Obed Iian, Yaron Klein