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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;

Inventor:

Wen-Sheng Lin, Kaohsiung, TW;

Assignee:

SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 11/1044 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention introduces a non-transitory computer program product for handling a sudden power off recovery (SPOR) to include program code to: drive a flash access interface to read pages of a current block in sequence after a power restart subsequent to a sudden power off (SPO); mark the last correct page of the current block according to page read statuses for the current block; configure n1 pages after the next page of the last correct page of the current block as dummy pages; and drive the flash access interface to store data of the last correct page and its previous n2-1 pages of the current block in empty pages after the last dummy page of the current block, wherein any of n1 and n2 is a positive integer.


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