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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
May. 09, 2011
Applicant:
Franz Michael Schuette, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Inventor:
Franz Michael Schuette, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignee:
OCZ Technology Group Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A solid state drive that uses over-provisioning of NAND flash memory blocks as part of housekeeping functionality, including deduplication and coalescence of data for efficient usage of NAND flash memory devices and maintaining sufficient numbers of erased blocks to promote write performance.