Management of erase operations in storage devices based on flash memories
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Nov 13, 2008
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May 9, 2007
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May 9, 2007
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Abstract
A method of freeing physical memory space in an electrically alterable memory that includes a plurality of physical memory blocks includes a plurality of physical memory pages. Each physical memory block may be individually erased as a whole, and which memory is used to emulate a random access logical memory space including a plurality of logical memory sectors by storing updated versions of a logical memory sector data into different physical memory pages. The method includes causing a most recent version of multiple versions of logical memory sector data, stored in physical pages of at least one physical memory block, to be copied into an unused physical memory block, marking the at least one physical memory block, and when the electrically alterable memory is idle, erasing the marked physical memory block.
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International Classification(s)
- 2007 Application Filing Year
- G06F Class
- 34585 Applications Filed
- 24142 Patents Issued To-Date
- 69.81 % Issued To-Date
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- 88 Citation Count
- G06F Class
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