Methods for phased garbage collection

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2006-08-04

2008-10-28

Lane, Jack A (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S154000, C711S165000

Reexamination Certificate

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07444461

ABSTRACT:
A method for operating a non-volatile memory storage system is provided. In this method, a write command is received to write data. The write command is allocated a timeout period to complete an execution of the write command. Within the timeout period, a portion of a garbage collection operation is performed. The data associated with the write command are written to a buffer associated with the non-volatile memory storage system.

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