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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Young-Ho Park, Anyang-si, KR;

Sungkug Cho, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Byoung Young Ahn, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2022 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device includes a controller that receives a value corresponding to data stored in a memory and a key to be referenced to identify the value from a host. In addition, the controller manages partial key-value mapping information indicating a correspondence relationship between a partial key and a value address, and returns information to the host in response to a host request. The information corresponds to a key that includes a same character as a character at a specific position of the received key. The controller to determine the information by determining a partial region of the memory that stores the data based on the partial key-value mapping information and performing a read operation on the partial region to obtain an entire key including the partial key.


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