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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Douglas A. Prins, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Aaron K. Olbrich, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas A. Prins, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Aaron K. Olbrich, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pliant Technology, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a mass storage system and method for breaking a host command into a hierarchy of data structures. Different types of data structures are designed to handle different phases of tasks required by the host command, and multiple data structures may be used to handle portions of the host command in parallel, thereby allowing increased performance. The disclosed embodiments include a flash memory controller designed to allow a high degree of pipelining and parallelism.