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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. 29, 2018

Filed:

May. 20, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Frederic Sala, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Chaohong Hu, San Jose, CA (US);

Hongzhong Zheng, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Dimin Niu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mu-Tien Chang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/1018 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 12/1018 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of memory deduplication includes identifying hash tables each corresponding to a hash function, and each including physical buckets, each physical bucket including ways and being configured to store data, identifying virtual buckets each including some physical buckets, and each sharing a physical bucket with another virtual bucket, identifying each of the physical buckets having data stored thereon as being assigned to a single virtual bucket, hashing a data line according to a hash function to produce a hash value, determining whether a corresponding virtual bucket has available space for a block of data according to the hash value, sequentially moving data from the corresponding virtual bucket to an adjacent virtual bucket when the corresponding virtual bucket does not have available space until the corresponding virtual bucket has space for the block of data, and storing the block of data in the corresponding virtual bucket.


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