Patents by Inventor Tamio Saimen

Tamio Saimen 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: 11520719
    Abstract: A memory controller includes a host interface circuit connectable to a host device by a bus conforming to a memory card system specification, a data buffer circuit including a buffer memory, a tag information generation circuit configured to generate tag information associated with a command received by the host interface circuit, and a first register in which the tag information generated by the tag information generation circuit is stored, and a second register into which the tag information stored in the first register is copied after the command is fetched from the host interface circuit for processing. When a read request is made from the host interface circuit to the data buffer circuit, the data buffer circuit returns read data stored in the buffer memory upon confirming that the tag information stored in the first register and the tag information stored in the second register match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamio Saimen, Kenji Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20210365393
    Abstract: A memory controller includes a host interface circuit connectable to a host device by a bus conforming to a memory card system specification, a data buffer circuit including a buffer memory, a tag information generation circuit configured to generate tag information associated with a command received by the host interface circuit, and a first register in which the tag information generated by the tag information generation circuit is stored, and a second register into which the tag information stored in the first register is copied after the command is fetched from the host interface circuit for processing. When a read request is made from the host interface circuit to the data buffer circuit, the data buffer circuit returns read data stored in the buffer memory upon confirming that the tag information stored in the first register and the tag information stored in the second register match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Tamio SAIMEN, Kenji SAKAUE
  • Publication number: 20050132130
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The controller causes management data for page data to be inputted to a redundant area of the nonvolatile memory before the execution of a program and, when moving the page data in the nonvolatile memory to one other page, controls the reading of the page data to check the page data for errors during a program period for the one other page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Takehiro Hasegawa, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Tamio Saimen
  • Patent number: 6868007
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory system having a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The controller causes management data for page data to be inputted to a redundant area of the nonvolatile memory before the execution of a program and, when moving the page data in the nonvolatile memory to one other page, controls the reading of the page data to check the page data for errors during a program period for the one other page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takehiro Hasegawa, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Tamio Saimen
  • Publication number: 20030117846
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The controller causes management data for page data to be inputted to a redundant area of the nonvolatile memory before the execution of a program and, when moving the page data in the nonvolatile memory to one other page, controls the reading of the page data to check the page data for errors during a program period for the one other page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takehiro Hasegawa, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Tamio Saimen