Effective wear-leveling and concurrent reclamation method...

Details Effective wear-leveling and concurrent reclamation method... Effective wear-leveling and concurrent reclamation method...

2005-12-22

2010-11-09

Elmore, Stephen C (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S103000, C711S113000, C711S133000, C711S156000, C711S006000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07831783

ABSTRACT:
Reclamation of an Erase Unit of a flash memory is performed concurrently with a file operation on the flash memory by initiating a reclamation operation on the individually erasable portion of the memory, by suspending the reclamation operation for the file operation, by performing the file operation, and by resuming the reclamation operation.

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