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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:
May. 30, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 16, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Benjamin Rivera, Boise, ID (US);

Nicolas Soberanes, Boise, ID (US);

Avani F. Trivedi, Boise, ID (US);

Joseph A. De La Cerda, Boise, ID (US);

Bruce J. Ford, Meridian, ID (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0751 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for adjustable media management are described. A media management operation may be performed at a first rate. During the media management operation, invalid data may be moved from a first block of memory cells to a second block of memory cells at the first rate to free space in the first block. Based on one or more conditions of the memory device, the rate that the media management operation is performed may be adjusted to a second rate. For example, the rate may be lowered based on a quantity of access operations performed on the memory device. Invalid data may continue to be moved from the first block of memory cells to the second block of memory cells at the second rate.


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