Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-02
2011-08-02
Lane, Jack A (Department: 2185)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Specific memory composition
C711S154000, C711S203000, C711S206000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07991946
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus usable with a flash memory as storage and a method of operating the same are provided, which can provide an optimized architecture to a flash memory through combination of a flash transition layer (FTL) with a database. The apparatus includes a flash memory, a device driver to manage a mapping table between logical addresses and physical addresses in accordance with a data operation in the flash memory, and a control unit to perform data recovery of the flash memory by requesting the mapping table through an interface provided by the device driver.
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Kim Hyo-Jun
Lee Ki-Yong
Park Hee-seon
Woo Kyoung-gu
Lane Jack A
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
Stanzione & Kim LLP
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