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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:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Keith M. Campbell, Cary, NC (US);

William M. Megarity, Raleigh, NC (US);

Luke D. Remis, Raleigh, NC (US);

Gregory D. Sellman, Morrisville, NC (US);

Christopher L. Wood, Greenville, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G11C 16/3495 (2013.01);
Abstract

Thermally sensitive wear leveling for a flash memory device that includes a plurality of flash memory modules, the flash memory device included in a computing system that includes a plurality of additional computing components, including: identifying a thermal sensitivity coefficient for each flash memory module in dependence upon a physical topology of the flash memory device and one or more of the additional computing components; identifying wear leveling information for each flash memory module; receiving a request to write data to the flash memory device; selecting, in dependence upon the thermal sensitivity coefficient for each flash memory module and the wear leveling information for each flash memory module, a target flash memory module for servicing the request to write data to the flash memory device; and writing the data to the target flash memory module.


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