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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:
Jan. 23, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Kyungryun Kim, Seoul, KR;

Sangyong Yoon, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A program method of a storage device which includes at least one nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller to control the at least one nonvolatile memory device, the program method comprising: performing a first normal program operation to store first user data in a memory block; detecting, at the memory controller, a first event; performing a dummy program operation to store dummy data in at least one page of the memory block in response to the detection of the first event; and performing a second normal program operation to store second user data in the memory block after the dummy program operation, dummy program operations being operations in which random data is programmed into the memory block, normal program operations being operations in which data other than random data is programmed in the memory block.


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