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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1036 (2016.01); G06F 12/109 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0284 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 12/0292 (2013.01); G06F 12/109 (2013.01); G06F 12/1036 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first storage area and a controller. The first storage area configured to store therein data sent from a host. The size of the first storage area is a first size larger than a second size. The second size is a size of a logical address space which is assigned to a memory system by the host. The controller is configured to change the second size in response to a request from the host while at least a part of data in the logical address space stays valid.