Patents by Inventor Yuujiro SHIMADA

Yuujiro SHIMADA 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: 8582358
    Abstract: A memory system includes nonvolatile memory having a plurality of memory cells of storage capacity of a specified number of bits equal to or greater than two bits, and a number-of-rewrites management table managing numbers of rewrites of the memory cells. The memory system includes a controller writing to the memory cells in a number of bits in accordance with a write request of a host, dividing the memory cells into groups in dependence on storage capacity after the numbers of rewrites of the memory cells managed by the number-of-rewrites management table exceed a specified number, and writing to the memory cells of the group corresponding to storage capacity of the number of bits in accordance with the write request of the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takeyama, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Yuujiro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20120250408
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes nonvolatile memory having a plurality of memory cells of storage capacity of a specified number of bits equal to or greater than two bits, and a number-of-rewrites management table managing numbers of rewrites of the memory cells. The memory system of the embodiment includes a controller writing to the memory cells in a number of bits in accordance with a write request of a host, dividing the memory cells into groups in dependence on storage capacity after the numbers of rewrites of the memory cells managed by the number-of-rewrites management table exceed a specified number, and writing to the memory cells of the group corresponding to storage capacity of the number of bits in accordance with the write request of the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu TAKEYAMA, Hiroshi SUKEGAWA, Yuujiro SHIMADA