Patent ID: 11861237
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. An operating method of a storage device including a nonvolatile memory device, the method comprising:
performing a first operation on a value of a memory cell of the nonvolatile memory device mapped to a first state;
in-place updating the value of the memory cell with a first result by the first operation without erasing the memory cell to set the memory cell to a second state; and
performing a second operation on the value of the memory cell mapped to the second state,
wherein the nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, the memory cell array including main memory cells and flag cells, each main memory cell includes one or more data sets and is set to one of a plurality of memory cell states.