Patent ID: 7093062

Claim:
A method of operating a non-volatile memory device comprising: receiving an address, having a row address, a column address, and an initial data word offset address; selecting a column page with the address from a memory array having a plurality of non-volatile memory cells; dividing the column page into a plurality of data word sets based on the offset address, wherein each data word set contains an equal number of one or more data words; selecting and sensing an initial data word set of the column page, wherein the initial data word set begins with a data word of the initial data word offset address; selecting and sensing a following sequential data word set of the column page while reading the one or more data words of the initial data word set sequentially from the non-volatile memory device; and selecting and sensing any further following sequential data word sets of the column page while reading the one or more data words of a previously sensed data word set sequentially from the non-volatile memory device until all the data word sets of the selected column page have been read.