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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2022
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Kishore Kumar Muchherla, San Jose, CA (US);
Kulachet Tanpairoj, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Feeley, Boise, ID (US);
Sampath K. Ratnam, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashutosh Malshe, Fremont, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A method includes identifying, by a processing device, a common pool of blocks comprising a first plurality of blocks allocated to system data and a second plurality of blocks allocated to user data; determining whether user data has been written to the second plurality of blocks within a threshold period of time; and responsive to determining that the user data has not been written to the second plurality of blocks within the threshold period of time, allocating a block from the second plurality of blocks to the first plurality of blocks.