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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2019
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Hyunsuk Shin, San Diego, CA (US);
Hung Vuong, Carlsbad, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses to fragment data in a flash memory device are presented. The apparatus includes a host configured to request a flash memory device, via a memory bus, to fragment data stored in the flash memory device in response to a determination of a data fragmentation status of the flash memory device exceeding a threshold. The method includes determining a data fragmentation status of the flash memory device exceeding a threshold and requesting, by a host, the flash memory device to fragment data stored in the flash memory device in response to the determining the data fragmentation status exceeding the threshold.