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Patent US7818490 - Partial block data programming and reading operations in a non-volatile memory - Google Patents
Data in less than all of the pages of a non-volatile memory block are updated by programming the new data in unused pages of either the same or another block. In order to prevent having to copy unchanged pages of data into the new block, or to program flags into superceded pages of data, the pages of...http://www.google.com/patents/US7818490?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7818490 - Partial block data programming and reading operations in a non-volatile memory
Publication number US7818490 B2
Application number US 11/250,238
Also published as CN1290021C, CN1514971A, CN1924830A, CN1924831A, CN100485641C, CN100485642C, DE60211653D1, DE60211653T2, EP1352394A2, EP1352394B1, EP1645964A2, EP1645964A3, EP1653323A2, EP1653323A3, EP1653323B1, EP2953030A1, US6763424, US6968421, US7657702, US7970987, US8316177, US20020099904, US20040210708, US20060031627, US20090150601, US20110029724, US20110258386, WO2002058074A2, WO2002058074A3, WO2002058074A9
Publication number 11250238, 250238, US 7818490 B2, US 7818490B2, US-B2-7818490, US7818490 B2, US7818490B2
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US 7818490 B2
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U.S. Classification 711/103, 711/115, 711/113
International Classification G11C16/10, G11C16/06, G06F12/00, G11C16/02, G06F12/02, G06F9/24