Patent ID: 8375163

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for processing commands associated with an activated bank page within a memory unit, the method comprising: selecting a first entry from a dedicated bank queue; extracting a first bank page number included in the first entry; transmitting an activate command to activate a first bank page within the memory unit identified by the first bank page number; requesting a first set of commands from a first sort bin associated with the first entry, wherein the first set of commands comprises a plurality of commands, and wherein the first sort bin is included in a plurality of sort bins that reside within a command sorter unit, each sort bin in the plurality of sort bins is affirmatively associated with a different bank page within the memory unit, and the first sort bin is affirmatively associated with the first bank page; transmitting the first set of commands to a command queue for processing relative to the first bank page; and incrementing a count associated with an interlock counter, wherein the count indicates a number of sets of commands that were requested from the first sort bin and have been transmitted to the command queue for processing relative to the first bank page.