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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2009
Applicants:
Kevin L Kilzer, Chandler, AZ (US);
Robert W Ellis, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Rudolph J Sterbenz, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Kevin L Kilzer, Chandler, AZ (US);
Robert W Ellis, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Rudolph J Sterbenz, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
SMART Storage Systems, Inc., Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are techniques for flash memory management, including tracking payload data via one or more data structures configured to define the size of logical pages in a flash memory. In various embodiments, the logical page size may be larger than, equal to, or smaller than a physical page size of a flash memory chip.