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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Edinburgh, DE;
Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Edinburgh, DE;
Lexar Media, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
According to a first aspect of an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method of data storage and retrieval for use in a solid state memory system, having a non-volatile memory, wherein data is written to the non-volatile memory in the form of at least one logical sector the method comprising: monitoring the logical sector data which is to be written to the non-volatile memory, detecting the presence of a pattern in the logical sector data, upon detecting a repetitive pattern recording the repetitive pattern of the logical sector in a sector address table in the non-volatile memory without making a record of the logical sector data in the nonvolatile memory.