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Kentaro Shimada
Also filed as: SHIMADA KENTARO
85 granted patents·11 pending applications·1,046 citations·filing 1995–2024
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96 records- 0199US7409492B2Storage system using flash memory modules logically grouped for wear-leveling and RAIDHITACHI LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 5, 2008·198 cites·31 claims
- 0298US7227746B2Storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 5, 2007·66 cites·19 claims
- 0396US7734865B2Storage system using flash memory modules logically grouped for wear-leveling and raidHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 8, 2010·38 cites·20 claims
- 0495US11543972B1Storage system and control method thereofHITACHI LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 3, 2023·3 cites·8 claims
- 0595US8321722B2Storage device, and data path failover method of internal network of storage controllerTANAKA KATSUYA·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 27, 2012·30 cites·8 claims
- 0695US8082466B2Storage device, and data path failover method of internal network of storage controllerTANAKA KATSUYA·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 20, 2011·41 cites·22 claims
- 0793US11829600B2Storage system and data processing method using data compressionHITACHI LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 28, 2023·2 cites·11 claims
- 0893US8051367B2Storage sub-system and method for controlling the sameHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 1, 2011·30 cites·9 claims
- 0990US7990823B2Storage device and its drive startup methodHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 2, 2011·10 cites·20 claims
- 1090US7349204B2Disk deviceHITACHI LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 25, 2008·23 cites·19 claims
- 1190US7069385B2Cluster-type storage system and managing method of the cluster-type storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 27, 2006·57 cites·17 claims
- 1286US11782603B2Optimized communicaton in storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 10, 2023·1 cites·12 claims
- 1386US7831764B2Storage system having plural flash memory drives and method for controlling data storageHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 9, 2010·17 cites·20 claims
- 1485US8429340B2Storage system comprising flash memory modules subject to plural types of wear-leveling processesTANAKA KATSUYA·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 23, 2013·5 cites·23 claims
- 1584US7840820B2Storage system and method of controlling of feeding power to storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 23, 2010·13 cites·11 claims
- 1683US7127585B2Storage having logical partitioning capability and systems which include the storageHITACHI LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 24, 2006·25 cites·13 claims
- 1782US11360669B2Storage device accelerator providing aggregation of divided plaintext dataHITACHI LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Jun 14, 2022·1 cites·11 claims
- 1882US7970986B2Storage system using flash memories and wear-leveling method for the same systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 28, 2011·4 cites·20 claims
- 1981US9286210B2System executes wear-leveling among flash memory modulesHITACHI LTD·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 15, 2016·3 cites·25 claims
- 2081US8214595B2Storage system which utilizes two kinds of memory devices as its cache memory and method of controlling the storage systemSHIMADA KENTARO·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 3, 2012·9 cites·13 claims
- 2181US7840775B2Storage system in which resources are dynamically allocated to logical partition, and logical division method for storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 23, 2010·10 cites·7 claims
- 2281US7814270B2Storage systems and methods of controlling cache memory of storage systemsHITACHI LTD·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 12, 2010·9 cites·2 claims
- 2381US7467238B2Disk controller and storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 16, 2008·9 cites·9 claims
- 2481US7120739B2Storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 10, 2006·24 cites·18 claims
- 2581US6044450AProcessor for VLIW instructionHITACHI LTD·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 28, 2000·107 cites·18 claims
- 2680US8788745B2Storage system comprising flash memory modules subject to two wear—leveling processesHITACHI LTD·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 22, 2014·3 cites·23 claims
- 2780US7809981B2Storage system and control method of storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 5, 2010·7 cites·20 claims
- 2879US11455122B2Storage system and data compression method for storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 27, 2022·1 cites·14 claims
- 2979US10402361B2Storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 3, 2019·2 cites·13 claims
- 3079US7958391B2Storage system and control method of storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 7, 2011·4 cites·20 claims
- 3179US7249220B2Storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 24, 2007·7 cites·28 claims
- 3279US2024319923A1Apparatus for processing received dataHITACHI LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3378US7743209B2Storage system for virtualizing control memoryHITACHI LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 22, 2010·9 cites·12 claims
- 3477US11507307B2Storage system including a memory controller that enables each storage controller of a plurality of storage controllers to exclusively read and write control information of the memoryHITACHI LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 22, 2022·1 cites·12 claims
- 3577US10901626B1Storage deviceHITACHI LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 26, 2021·1 cites·6 claims
- 3677US7124244B2Storage system and a method of speeding up writing data into the storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 17, 2006·23 cites·12 claims
- 3777US6957303B2System and managing method for cluster-type storageHITACHI LTD·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 18, 2005·20 cites·15 claims
- 3876US12019921B2Apparatus for processing received dataHITACHI LTD·Filed 2023·Granted Jun 25, 2024·0 cites·14 claims
- 3975US10789196B2Storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 29, 2020·1 cites·18 claims
- 4074US12353712B2Storage deviceHITACHI LTD·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 8, 2025·0 cites·7 claims
- 4174US7249221B2Storage system having network channels connecting shared cache memories to disk drivesHITACHI LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 24, 2007·16 cites·12 claims
- 4273US10795608B2Computer, communication driver, and communication control methodHITACHI LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 6, 2020·2 cites·11 claims
- 4373US8386721B2Storage having logical partitioning capability and systems which include the storageHITACHI LTD·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 26, 2013·4 cites·26 claims
- 4473US7773589B2Load-balancing, fault-tolerant storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 10, 2010·6 cites·6 claims
- 4573US5754288AOptical measuring method of expiration componentsKYOTO DAIICHI KAGAKU KK·Filed 1996·Granted May 19, 1998·40 cites·8 claims
- 4672US7181577B2Storage having logical partitioning capability and systems which include the storageHITACHI LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 20, 2007·12 cites·17 claims
- 4771US8312314B2Storage system and control method of storage systemTAKADA MASANORI·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 13, 2012·2 cites·14 claims
- 4871US8225044B2Storage system which utilizes two kinds of memory devices as its cache memory and method of controlling the storage systemSHIMADA KENTARO·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 17, 2012·2 cites·22 claims
- 4970US11640265B2Apparatus for processing received dataHITACHI LTD·Filed 2021·Granted May 2, 2023·0 cites·13 claims
- 5069US11816336B2Storage system and control method thereofHITACHI LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 14, 2023·0 cites·8 claims
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