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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2025
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei City, TW;
Inventors:
Yu-Lin Yeh Liu, Miaoli County, TW;
Szu-I Yeh, Hsinchu County, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei City, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2089 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention introduces a method for performing a sudden power off recovery (SPOR) process, performed by a processing unit of a flash controller, to include: performing operations for the SPOR process after regaining power; and performing operations for a reduced garbage collection (GC) process. An execution time of the operations for the SPOR process and the reduced GC process is limited to a preset time that a host side waits for a completion of the SPOR process by the flash controller.