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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:
Apr. 05, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Lance L. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeremy Fillingim, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

David Flynn, Sandy, UT (US);

Bill Inskeep, West Valley City, UT (US);

John Strasser, Syracuse, UT (US);

Jonathan Thatcher, Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01); G06F 1/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/141 (2013.01); G06F 1/30 (2013.01); G06F 11/1048 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 11/2015 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01); G06F 2201/81 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for power reduction management. The method includes determining that a power source has failed to supply electric power above a predefined threshold. The method includes terminating one or more non-essential in-process operations on a nonvolatile memory device during a power hold-up time. The method includes executing one or more essential in-process operations on the nonvolatile memory device within the power hold-up time.


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