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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Nxgn Data, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Nader Salessi, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Joao Alcantara, Irvine, CA (US);
NXGN Data, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of maintaining and updating a logical-to-physical (LtoP) table in a storage device including a processor, a volatile memory, and a non-volatile memory, the storage device being in communication with a host, the method including receiving, by the processor, data for storing at a physical address in the non-volatile memory, the data being associated with a logical address of the host, storing, by the processor, the physical address in a first LtoP zone of a plurality of LtoP zones of the LtoP table, the LtoP table being stored in the volatile memory, adding, by the processor, the first LtoP zone to a list of modified zones, and storing, by the processor, a second LtoP zone of the plurality of LtoP zones in the non-volatile memory when a size of the list of modified zones exceeds a threshold.