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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2018
Applicant:
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventors:
Hsu-Ping Ou, Hsinchu County, TW;
Yu-Jen Huang, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of a flash memory controller coupled between a flash memory and an electronic device is provided. The flash memory has a plurality of blocks each having a plurality of pages. The method includes: detecting whether a data unit is formed by a repeated pattern, the data unit being transmitted from the electronic device and to be written into the flash memory or the data unit being read from the flash memory; and making a record of the repeated pattern at a field of the specific table if determining that the data unit is formed by the repeated pattern.