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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2024
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Zongwang Li, Dublin, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rekha Pitchumani, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Abstract
A device may include a storage medium, a cache medium, a buffer medium, and at least one control circuit configured to perform one or more operations including receiving a first request to access the storage medium, accessing, based on the first request, the cache medium, copying, from a portion of the storage medium to the buffer medium, data, modifying, based on the copying, an availability of the at least a portion of the storage medium, receiving a second request to access the storage medium, and accessing, based on the second request, the buffer medium. The one or more operations may include determining a location of data associated with the second request, and accessing, based on the determining, the buffer medium. The one or more operations may include receiving information about a location of data associated with the second request, and accessing, based on the information, the buffer medium.