Patent ID: 7440324

Claim:
A non-volatile storage system, comprising: a set of non-volatile storage elements including a target non-volatile storage element and a neighbor non-volatile storage element, the neighbor non-volatile storage element is next to the target non-volatile storage element; and one or more managing circuits in communication with the set of non-volatile storage elements, as part of an attempt to read data from the target non-volatile storage element the one or more managing circuits perform a set of read operations on the target non-volatile storage element and performs a group of read operations on the neighbor non-volatile storage element, one or more of the group of read operations are temporally intermixed with at least a portion of the set of read operations, the set of read operations include applying different voltages to the neighbor non-volatile storage element, the one or more managing circuits choose a subset of the set of read operations based on the group of read operations and identifies the data stored in the target non-volatile storage element based on the chosen subset.