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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Junko Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Nakanishi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory device and controlling method for nonvolatile memory are provided. The memory device and the controlling method for a nonvolatile memory are provided by which, where a file management system wherein there is a tendency that lower logic addresses are used frequently like the MS-DOS is adopted, physical blocks of a flash memory are used in an averaged fashion and the life of the flash memory can be elongated thereby.