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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2025
Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei City, TW;
PO-Wei Wu, New Taipei City, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei City, TW;
Abstract
The invention introduces a method for handling a garbage collection (GC) process, performed by a processing unit of a flash controller, to include: detecting that a portable storage device is inserted into a host equipment; obtaining a maximum transmission bandwidth of a host interface (I/F); determining that a transmission bandwidth of a flash I/F is higher than the maximum transmission bandwidth of the host I/F; and in response to a determination that the transmission bandwidth of the flash I/F is higher than the maximum transmission bandwidth of the host I/F, inserting operations of the GC process during an execution of a host command.