Wear leveling in flash memory devices with trim commands

S Okada, Y Ise, D Nakata - US Patent App. 13/669,633, 2014 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are provided to implement a memory device that includes a
memory array having a plurality of sectors, a non-volatile memory that stores sector state …

Hardware-based system monitoring

C Golden, E Watkins - US Patent 11,010,233, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary monitoring system receives log data associated with an operation of a
hardware component, applies the log data as an input to an unsupervised machine learning …

Detection of writing to a non-header portion of a file as an indicator of a possible ransomware attack against a storage system

R Karr - US Patent 12,067,118, 2024 - Google Patents
An illustrative method includes detecting a request to perform an overwrite operation with
respect to a non-header portion of a file stored by a storage system and determining, based …

Memory operations on data

P Amato, D Balluchi, D Caraccio… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to memory operations on
data. An example method can include executing an operation by writing a first managed unit …

Systems and methods for storage recovery

J Peterson, M Callahan - US Patent 10,338,817, 2019 - Google Patents
Storage divisions are selected for garbage collection by use of a first selection criterion that
is based on an amount of storage capacity freed by reclaiming the respective storage …

Security threat monitoring for a storage system

A Bansal, O Watkins, J Hayase, N Bhargava… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary security threat monitoring system receives performance metric data
representative of a performance metric for a storage system, applies the performance metric …

Memory management

M Dallabora, E Confalonieri, P Amato… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to hybrid memory
management. An example appa ratus can include a first memory array, a number of second …

Traffic-based detection of a security threat to a storage system

A Miller, R Karr, A Kutner, PD Lee… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining that a total amount of
read traffic and write traffic processed by a storage system during a time period exceeds a …

Modify access restrictions in response to a possible attack against data stored by a storage system

R Child, R Karr - US Patent 11,755,751, 2023 - Google Patents
An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining that data stored by a
storage system is under a possible attack, detecting a modify request with respect to the …

Multi-layer security threat detection for a storage system

PD Lee, R Karr, A Kutner, A Miller… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
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