Patents by Inventor Yossef TALMI

Yossef TALMI 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).

  • System and methods for increasing useful lifetime of a flash memory device
    Patent number: 10496289
    Abstract: A system for improving utilization of a nonvolatile flash memory device which has pages whose guaranteed per-cycle erase time and guaranteed number of cycles are known, the system comprising erase time determination functionality for individual pages; de-facto total erase-time accumulation functionality incrementing, for each erase cycle to which an individual page is subjected, by the individual page's de facto erase time per cycle as provided by the erase time measurement functionality; and flash memory page usage monitoring functionality operative to control usage of pages in flash memory including selecting at least one individual flash memory page depending on a comparison between the individual flash memory page's de facto total erase time and a guaranteed erase time computed as a product of the guaranteed per-cycle erase time and of the guaranteed number of cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilan Margalit, Ziv Hershman, Dan Morav, Einat Luko, Oren Tanami, Yossef Talmi
  • SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INCREASING USEFUL LIFETIME OF A FLASH MEMORY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170364282
    Abstract: A system for improving utilization of a nonvolatile flash memory device which has pages whose guaranteed per-cycle erase time and guaranteed number of cycles are known, the system comprising erase time determination functionality for individual pages; de-facto total erase-time accumulation functionality incrementing, for each erase cycle to which an individual page is subjected, by the individual page's de facto erase time per cycle as provided by the erase time measurement functionality; and flash memory page usage monitoring functionality operative to control usage of pages in flash memory including selecting at least one individual flash memory page depending on a comparison between the individual flash memory page's de facto total erase time and a guaranteed erase time computed as a product of the guaranteed per-cycle erase time and of the guaranteed number of cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilan MARGALIT, Ziv HERSHMAN, Dan MORAV, Einat LUKO, Oren TANAMI, Yossef TALMI