Patent ID: 11923016
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method of operating a NAND device, comprising:
resuming a program operation with respect to a NAND memory during a first tier in response to a suspension counter reaching a first threshold;
resuming the program operation with respect to the NAND memory during a second tier in response to the suspension counter reaching a second threshold;
resuming the program operation with respect to the NAND memory during a third tier in response to the suspension counter reaching a third threshold; and
servicing one or more read operations with respect to the NAND memory until the suspension counter reaches the first threshold during the first tier, until the suspension counter reaches the second threshold during the second tier, and until the suspension counter reaches the third threshold during the third tier.