Patent ID: 11860799
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
receiving, at a controller of a memory device, a request to perform a memory operation;
adjusting, by the controller of the memory device, a value stored in a counter, the value indicative of a quantity of memory requests that are outstanding at the memory device, including incrementing the value of the counter responsive to the receiving;
adding the request to a request queue;
forwarding the request from the request queue to at least one memory component of the memory device as a memory request;
incrementing a second counter indicative of one or more credits to be returned to another device responsive to the forwarding; and
transmitting, by the controller of the memory device, a credit return based on the value of the counter and at least one threshold.