Patents by Inventor Samuel Charbouillot

Samuel Charbouillot 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: 9286207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing the endurance of a data storage system provided with a set of sectors endowed with a guaranteed native endurance capacity (G), comprising the steps consisting in: —partitioning said data storage system into a plurality of work sectors, and into a plurality of replacement sectors able to form an endurance reservoir, certain of the work sectors being intended to be replaced by replacement sectors when said work sectors are expended after a certain number of programming and/or erasure cycles; —defining an address management area making it possible to retrieve the location of the replacement sectors assigned to expended work sectors; —determining, sector by sector, whether a current work sector is physically expended, and executing a step of replacing this work sector by a replacement sector, only when said current work sector is declared physically expended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: STARCHIP
    Inventors: Samuel Charbouillot, Yves Fusella, Stéphane Ricard
  • Publication number: 20140223082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing the endurance of a data storage system provided with a set of sectors endowed with a guaranteed native endurance capacity (G), comprising the steps consisting in:—partitioning said data storage system into a plurality of work sectors, and into a plurality of replacement sectors able to form an endurance reservoir, certain of the work sectors being intended to be replaced by replacement sectors when said work sectors are expended after a certain number of programming and/or erasure cycles;—defining an address management area making it possible to retrieve the location of the replacement sectors assigned to expended work sectors;—determining, sector by sector, whether a current work sector is physically expended, and executing a step of replacing this work sector by a replacement sector, only when said current work sector is declared physically expended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Samuel Charbouillot, Yves Fusella, Stéphane Ricard
  • Patent number: 8244959
    Abstract: A subset of software objects stored in a first segment of non-volatile memory are identified as requiring frequent write operations or otherwise associated with a high endurance requirement. The subset of software objects are move to a second segment of non-volatile memory with a high endurance capacity, due to the application of wear leveling techniques to the second segment of non-volatile memory. The first and second segments of memory can be located in the same memory device or different memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Atmel Rousset S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yves Fusella, Stephane Godzinski, Laurent Paris, Jean-Pascal Maraninchi, Samuel Charbouillot
  • Publication number: 20100122015
    Abstract: A subset of software objects stored in a first segment of non-volatile memory are identified as requiring frequent write operations or otherwise associated with a high endurance requirement. The subset of software objects are move to a second segment of non-volatile memory with a high endurance capacity, due to the application of wear leveling techniques to the second segment of non-volatile memory. The first and second segments of memory can be located in the same memory device or different memory devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yves Fusella, Stephane Godzinski, Laurent Paris, Jean-Pascal Maraninchi, Samuel Charbouillot