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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:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2020
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Jacob Mulamootil Jacob, Cedar Park, TX (US);

David Boles, Austin, TX (US);

Gaurav Sanjay Ramdasi, Pune, IN;

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/162 (2019.01); G06F 9/3009 (2013.01); G06F 16/1734 (2019.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
Abstract

A key-value pair comprising a key and a value associated with the key is stored in a current segment of a data container. The key comprises a segment identifier identifying the current segment. The data container comprises a plurality of segments residing on a non-volatile memory device. Responsive to determining that a size of the current segment exceeds a threshold, a new segment is added to the container. The plurality of key-value pairs having respective current segment identifiers referencing one or more least recently created segments of the data container is deleted.


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