Patent ID: 11960741
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The data storage device of claim 13, wherein, when the threshold number of open streams is reached, the controller is further configured to either:
write data of the first write command to a generic append point, wherein the generic append point is for a stream granularity size (SGS) LBA range associated with overflow commands;
close an open SGS LBA range, open a new SGS LBA range associated with the one or more LBAs of the first write command, and write the data of the first write command to a first open append point of the new SGS LBA range; or
merge two or more SGS LBA ranges to a single open append point and write the data of the first write command to the single open append point.