Patents by Inventor Sung-Kue Jo

Sung-Kue Jo 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: 9251015
    Abstract: Provided is a memory system and wear-leveling method. A memory system includes a flash memory device and a memory controller. The flash memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control the flash memory device based on erase event information and error checking and correction (ECC) event information of each of the memory blocks such that use of the memory blocks is distributed more uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Tae Yim, Sung-Kue Jo
  • Patent number: 9229805
    Abstract: Provided is a memory system and wear-leveling method. A memory system includes a flash memory device and a memory controller. The flash memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control the flash memory device based on erase event information and error checking and correction (ECC) event information of each of the memory blocks such that use of the memory blocks is distributed more uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Tae Yim, Sung-Kue Jo
  • Publication number: 20140245109
    Abstract: Provided is a memory system and wear-leveling method. A memory system includes a flash memory device and a memory controller. The flash memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control the flash memory device based on erase event information and error checking and correction (ECC) event information of each of the memory blocks such that use of the memory blocks is distributed more uniformly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Yong-Tae YIM, Sung-Kue JO
  • Publication number: 20090077429
    Abstract: Provided is a memory system and wear-leveling method. A memory system includes a flash memory device and a memory controller. The flash memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control the flash memory device based on erase event information and error checking and correction (ECC) event information of each of the memory blocks such that use of the memory blocks is distributed more uniformly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Yong-Tae Yim, Sung-Kue Jo
  • Patent number: 6351430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device comprising: a memory cell array formed of cell blocks arranged in matrix of row and column; sub wordline drivers, interposed between the cell blocks arranged along column direction, each for driving a row of the cell blocks in response to a wordline drive signal; and wordline drive signal generators, disposed between the sub wordline drivers arranged along row direction, each for providing the wordline drive signal to the corresponding sub wordline driver. The wordline drive signal generators have different drive capabilities depending upon the number of wordline drivers to be driven by the generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Kue Jo
  • Publication number: 20010019513
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device comprising: a memory cell array formed of cell blocks arranged in matrix of row and column; sub wordline drivers, interposed between the cell blocks arranged along column direction, each for driving a row of the cell blocks in response to a wordline drive signal; and wordline drive signal generators, disposed between the sub wordline drivers arranged along row direction, each for providing the wordline drive signal to the corresponding sub wordline driver. The wordline drive signal generators have different drive capabilities depending upon the number of wordline drivers to be driven by the generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co.
    Inventor: Sung-Kue Jo