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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:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2015
Applicant:

Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Tsutomu Owa, Kawasaki, JP;

Masaki Miyagawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Atsushi Kunimatsu, Funabashi, JP;

Mari Takada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7204 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01); H03M 7/6088 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a device includes a determination unit, compression unit, selecting unit, write updating unit, writing unit. The determination unit determines whether to compress write data based on specific information. The specific information including at least one of the type, number of accesses, access frequency and importance level of the write data. The compression unit compresses the write data when determining to compress the write data. The selecting unit selects a write region for the write data in nonvolatile memory based on the specific information. The write updating unit updates the specific information. The writing unit writes compressed write data into the write region when determining to compress the write data. The writing unit writes uncompressed write data into the write region when not determining to compress the write data.


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