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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
May. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Robert S. Wu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jian Chen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ashish Karkare, Milpitas, CA (US);
Alon Marcu, Tel Mond, IL;
Vsevolod Mountaniol, Givataim, IL;
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
The following embodiments generally relate to the use of a 'swap area' in a non-volatile memory as an extension to volatile memory in a computing device. These embodiments include techniques to use both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications, to control the bandwidth of swap operations, to encrypt data stored in the swap area, and to perform a fast clean-up of the swap area.