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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Proton World International N.v., Diegem, BE;
Inventors:
Michel Dawirs, Wezembeek-Oppem, BE;
Guillaume Docquier, Liège, BE;
Assignee:
Proton World International N.V., Diegem, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/3427 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flash memory management method, wherein: the data to be stored are organized in logic blocks; the memory is divided into pages; and each page is divided into frames, each frame being capable of containing at least one data block and at least one first frame metadata block containing all or part of the index values of the data block in an index tree, an index value corresponding to the address of a frame.