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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:
Apr. 13, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Roll, Tel Aviv, IL;

Stas Mouler, Kfar Saba, IL;

Matthew J. Byom, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew W. Vogan, Austin, TX (US);

Muhammad N. Ashraf, San Jose, CA (US);

Elad Harush, Kiryat Shmona, IL;

Roman Guy, Ashkelon, IL;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/106 (2013.01); G06F 11/1008 (2013.01); G06F 11/1056 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G11B 20/1833 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0411 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are techniques for managing parity information for data stored on a storage device. A method can be implemented at a computing device communicably coupled to the storage device, and include (1) receiving a request to write data into a data band of the storage device, (2) writing the data into stripes of the data band, comprising, for each stripe of the data band: (i) calculating first parity information for the data written into the stripe, (ii) writing the first parity information into a volatile memory, and (iii) in response to determining that a threshold number of stripes have been written: converting the first parity information into smaller second parity information, and (3) in response to determining that the data band is read-verified: (i) converting the second parity information into smaller third parity information, and (ii) storing the smaller third parity information into a parity band of the storage device.


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