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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2020
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory system, and a method of operating the memory system, includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The memory system also includes a memory controller for controlling the memory device to perform a data copy operation of moving and storing valid data stored in a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks in a target block among the plurality of memory blocks. The memory controller is configured to control the memory device to perform the data copy operation by preferentially selecting a weak page among a plurality of pages included in the selected memory block rather than the other pages.