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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideyuki Saito, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 13/1642 (2013.01);
Abstract
A host unit of an information processing apparatus has a command issuing block for issuing access requests to a flash memory, the issued commands being dividedly stored in two or more queues according to the contents and emergency level of access. A management command generating block of a flash controller generates requests for the processing necessary for the management of the flash memory, the requests being stored in any one of the queues. Following the rules set for each queue, a command processing block reads commands by switching between the queues and processes the commands.