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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2009
Ibrahim M. Elfadel, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Michele Franceschini, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ashish Jagmohan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Luis A. Lastras-montano, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Mayank Sharma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ibrahim M. Elfadel, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Michele Franceschini, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ashish Jagmohan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Mayank Sharma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Providing increased capacity in heterogeneous storage elements including a method for storing data including a write process writing to a memory and a read process reading from the memory. Physical characteristics of memory cells in the memory support different sets of data levels. The write process takes into account the different sets of data levels when writing to the memory. The read process first obtains data in the memory and subsequently determines how to interpret the data.