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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Gyu-dong Shim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Yang-sup Lee, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Won-moon Cheon, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
Memory blocks of a nonvolatile memory device are managed by identifying a full memory block, determining whether a block life of the full memory block exceeds a threshold value, and upon determining that the block life of the full memory block exceeds the threshold value, selecting the full memory block as a target block for garbage collection. The threshold of the block life is determined using an average write distance of logical pages programmed in the nonvolatile memory device.