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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 02, 2017
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Tsung-Yao Chiang, New Taipei, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device includes a data storage medium having a plurality of data blocks and a control unit electrically coupled to the data storage medium. The control unit is configured to access data in the data blocks, perform data reading operations to obtain a plurality of data characteristic parameters of the data blocks, obtain a first value and a second value according to the data characteristic parameters, perform an additional data reading operation on a target block selected from the data blocks to obtain an additional data characteristic parameter of the target block, and determine whether to perform a data swap operation on the target block according to the data characteristic parameter of the target block, the first value and the second value. A data moving method for the storage device is also provided.


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