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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. 16, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 04, 2015
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yiran Chen, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Hai Li, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Wenzhong Zhu, Apple Valley, MN (US);

Xiaobin Wang, Chanhassen, MN (US);

Yuan Yan, San Jose, CA (US);

Harry Hongyue Liu, Maple Grove, MN (US);

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/205 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/225 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01); Y02D 10/13 (2018.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an apparatus and associated method for updating data in a non-volatile memory array. In accordance with some embodiments, a memory block is formed with a plurality of types of memory cell sectors arranged in data pages of a first type and log pages of a second type that can be updated in-place. A first updated sector is written to a first log page while maintaining an outdated sector in an original data page, and overwritten with a second updated sector.


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