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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2009
Applicant:
Todd Ray Strope, Longmont, CO (US);
Inventor:
Todd Ray Strope, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods of encoding data to and decoding data from flash memory devices are provided. User data having an unknown ratio of 1's to 0's is received. The user data is utilized in generating transformed data that has a predictable ratio of 1's to 0's. The transformed data is stored to flash memory. The transformed data is illustratively generate by either applying an 'exclusive or' function to the user data or by converting the user data into a number having a greater number of bits.