Patents by Inventor Sang-Ryul Min

Sang-Ryul Min 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).

  • NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED DATA MERGE METHOD
    Publication number: 20090172269
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed with a nonvolatile memory adapted to store a file system containing file system information, and a controller adapted to read the file system information and perform a merge operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun SONG, Chan-Ik PARK, Sang-Ryul MIN
  • Flash memory device and associated data merge method
    Patent number: 7487303
    Abstract: A memory system comprises a flash memory and a controller comprising a control logic circuit and a working memory storing a flash translation layer. The memory system performs a merge operation by selectively copying a page from a first block of the flash memory to a second block of the flash memory. Where the page is valid and marked as allocated according to a file allocation table stored in the flash memory, the page is copied to the second block. However, where the page is valid and marked as deleted in the file allocation table, the page is not copied to the second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun Song, Chan-Ik Park, Sang-Ryul Min
  • Flash memory device and associated data merge method
    Publication number: 20060179263
    Abstract: A memory system comprises a flash memory and a controller comprising a control logic circuit and a working memory storing a flash translation layer. The memory system performs a merge operation by selectively copying a page from a first block of the flash memory to a second block of the flash memory. Where the page is valid and marked as allocated according to a file allocation table stored in the flash memory, the page is copied to the second block. However, where the page is valid and marked as deleted in the file allocation table, the page is not copied to the second block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun Song, Chan-Ik Park, Sang-Ryul Min