Patent ID: 11928063
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the creating the L2P bitmap is performed after the respective virtual block has been closed, and wherein, to perform a media management operation, the method further comprises:
identifying, using the L2P bitmaps, which include the identified L2P bitmap, a virtual block of the virtual blocks having a minimum amount of valid data;
identifying, based on at least one L2P table associated with the identified virtual block, valid logical addresses associated with valid data stored in the identified virtual block;
migrating, to a new virtual block, virtual pages from the identified virtual block corresponding to the valid logical addresses; and
updating mappings in the at least one L2P table so that the valid logical addresses map to new physical pages of the new virtual block.