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Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2006
Applicants:

Andrew Rogers, Redmond, WA (US);

Sachin C. Patel, Redmond, WA (US);

Yadhu N. Gopalan, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Rogers, Redmond, WA (US);

Sachin C. Patel, Redmond, WA (US);

Yadhu N. Gopalan, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Various flash management techniques may be described. An apparatus may comprise a processor, a flash memory coupled to the processor, and a flash management module. The flash management module may be executed by the processor to receive a write transaction request to write data to a flash memory, and write the data to a set of multiple discontiguous logical sectors corresponding to a set of physical sectors of the flash memory in a single atomic operation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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