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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011

Filed:

May. 16, 2006
Applicants:

Masahiro Nakanishi, Kyoto, JP;

Manabu Inoue, Osaka, JP;

Masayuki Toyama, Osaka, JP;

Tomoaki Izumi, Osaka, JP;

Tetsushi Kasahara, Osaka, JP;

Kazuaki Tamura, Osaka, JP;

Kiminori Matsuno, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Nakanishi, Kyoto, JP;

Manabu Inoue, Osaka, JP;

Masayuki Toyama, Osaka, JP;

Tomoaki Izumi, Osaka, JP;

Tetsushi Kasahara, Osaka, JP;

Kazuaki Tamura, Osaka, JP;

Kiminori Matsuno, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

With nonvolatile memory device employing a nonvolatile memory suc h as multiple-valued NAND flash memory or the like in which each memory cell holds data in a plurality of pages, there is such a problem that, if an error occurred under writing data, data stored in other page in the same group of the current page is changed, and hence the object of the present invention is to solve this problem. In writing data into a nonvolatile memory, when error occurred under writing data into a certain page, an error page identification partidentifies an error type and a physical address of the page where error occurred. An error correctorthen corrects errors occurred in other pages belonging to the same group of error occurrence page.


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