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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:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gautam Dusija, San Jose, CA (US);

Jianmin Huang, San Carlos, CA (US);

Chris N. Avila, Saratoga, CA (US);

Grishma S. Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);

Yi-Chieh Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Alexander K. Mak, Mountain View, CA (US);

Farookh Moogat, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/0751 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 11/0754 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques, related to a flash memory device having a non-volatile memory array (NVM), for recovering from a write interrupt resulting from host-supplied memory voltage fault are disclosed. A memory controller is configured to control a response to an occurrence of the write-interrupt, the response including writing to the NVM, after the memory voltage is verified as being within an acceptable range, one or more of a safe copy of a portion of a first sector of upper-page data and a safe copy of a portion of a second sector of lower-page data, and terminating the write interrupt. Terminating the write-interrupt may include receiving new data from the host while avoiding sending an error message to the host.


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