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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2018
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus may include a virtual flash device configured to emulate a flash memory device. The virtual flash device may include a flash interface configured to communicate with a flash controller, an address translation module configured to translate memory addresses from a flash based memory space to another memory space of another memory, a metadata and control module configured to manage metadata from the emulation of the flash memory device, and a non-flash memory controller configured to communicate with the other memory.