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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2024
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Haobo Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Fan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); H03M 13/11 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 16/273 (2019.01); H03M 13/1102 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory device of a storage device may receive a garbage collection command from a memory controller coupled to the memory device to perform an internal garbage collection operation within the memory device. The memory device may attempt to perform the garbage collection operation to internally move valid memory pages from a first memory block to a second memory block to free up the first memory block in response to the garbage collection command. The memory device may send an acknowledgement to the memory controller for the garbage collection command.