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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:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Sandisk Enterprise Ip Llc, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jack Edward Frayer, Boulder Creek, CA (US);

Vidyabhushan Mohan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/44 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 12/0623 (2013.01); G11C 29/765 (2013.01); G11C 29/785 (2013.01);
Abstract

The various embodiments described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable physical-to-physical address remapping in a storage module. In one aspect, the method includes, for each of a sequence of two or more units of non-volatile memory, determining a validity state of a respective unit of memory. In accordance with a determination that the validity state of the respective unit of memory is an invalid state, the method includes storing, in a table, a second address assigned to the respective unit of memory. At least a portion of the second address is a physical address portion corresponding to a physical location of a second unit of memory. In accordance with a determination that the validity state of the respective unit of memory is a valid state, the method includes forgoing assignment of the second address corresponding to the unit of memory.


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