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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:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2016
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Amir Shaharabany, Yair, IL;

Hadas Oshinsky, Kfar Saba, IL;

Yacov Duzly, Ra'anana, IL;

James Fitzpatrick, Sudbury, MA (US);

Assignee:

SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0751 (2013.01); G06F 11/0787 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and/or devices are used to pair metablocks in a non-volatile storage device. In one aspect, a method of data organization of a memory device includes, writing data to and reading data from respective metablocks in a set of metablocks. The method further includes while performing said writing and reading: (1) accessing one or more management data structures in controller memory, identifying two or more metablock pairs; (2) accessing and updating metablock status information indicating which metablocks of the set of metablocks are closed, free and open; and (3) accessing and updating a valid count, corresponding to a number of sub-block memory units having valid data for each of a plurality of metablocks in the set of metablocks.


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