Patent ID: 9245653
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G11C

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining that an erase block of a non-volatile storage device is to operate in a reduced level cell (RLC) mode, the non-volatile storage device configured to store at least three bits of data per storage cell; instructing the non-volatile storage device to program a first page of the erase block with data; instructing the non-volatile storage device to program a second page of the erase block with data; and instructing the non-volatile storage device to program a third page of the erase block with a predefined data pattern, the programming of the predefined data pattern configured to adjust which abodes of the erase block are available to represent stored user data values, wherein the first, second, and third pages are associated with a same set of storage cells of the erase block.