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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:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Allen Samuels, San Jose, CA (US);

Warren Fritz Kruger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Linh Tien Truong, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 16/3495 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and/or devices are used to enable triggering a process to reduce declared capacity of a storage device. In one aspect, the method includes, at a storage device of a storage system: (1) generating one or more metrics of the storage device, the storage device including non-volatile memory, (2) detecting a trigger condition in accordance with the one or more metrics of the storage device, and (3) enabling an amelioration process associated with the detected trigger condition, the amelioration process to reduce declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes one or more flash memory devices.


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