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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2018
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Chaohong Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method implemented by a memory device, comprising obtaining, by a processor coupled to a memory, a wear-leveling policy from an application executable at the memory device, wherein the wear-leveling policy indicates a memory size by which to perform wear-leveling within an instance, wherein the instance comprises an address range assigned to the application in the memory of the memory device, obtaining, by a processor, a request to access the instance, and performing, by the processor, wear-leveling on a plurality of memory cells within the instance according to the wear-leveling policy.