Patent ID: 8395948

Claim:
A method for programming non-volatile storage elements, comprising: programming a first subset of data stored in an intermediate storage device into a first subset of the non-volatile storage elements; without waiting for completion of the programming of the first subset of the data, evaluating whether a second subset of the data stored in the intermediate storage device should be programmed into a second subset of the non-volatile storage elements and determining that the second subset of the data should not be programmed into the second subset of the non-volatile storage elements; without waiting for completion of the programming of the first subset of the data and after determining that the second subset of the data should not be programmed into the second subset of the non-volatile storage elements, evaluating whether an additional subset of the data stored in the intermediate storage device should be programmed into an additional subset of the non-volatile storage elements; and programming the additional subset of the data into the additional subset of the non-volatile storage elements if the evaluating of the additional subset of the data determined that the additional subset of the data should be programmed into the additional subset of the non-volatile storage elements.