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Patent US8117380 - Management of non-volatile memory systems having large erase blocks - Google Patents
A non-volatile memory system of a type having blocks of memory cells erased together and which are programmable from an erased state in units of a large number of pages per block. If the data of only a few pages of a block are to be updated, the updated pages are written into another block provided for...http://www.google.com/patents/US8117380?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8117380 - Management of non-volatile memory systems having large erase blocks
Publication number US8117380 B2
Application number US 12/433,702
Also published as CN1902599A, CN1902599B, EP1700219A1, EP1700219B1, US8504798, US8745322, US20050144358, US20090216938, US20130339585, WO2005066790A1
Publication number 12433702, 433702, US 8117380 B2, US 8117380B2, US-B2-8117380, US8117380 B2, US8117380B2
Inventors Kevin M. Conley, Carlos J. Gonzalez
Patent Citations (91), Non-Patent Citations (23), Referenced by (3), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
US 8117380 B2
12. The method of claim 9, wherein said at least one data writing pattern includes designating the given group of blocks to store overhead data of others of the plurality of groups of blocks.
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U.S. Classification 711/103, 711/154, 711/200, 711/100
International Classification G06F12/02, G11C16/06, G06F13/00