Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for managing a memory apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 用于管理存储装置的方法
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Application No.: US13466147Application Date: 2012-05-08
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Publication No.: US08799622B2Publication Date: 2014-08-05
- Inventor: Chun-Kun Lee , Tsai-Cheng Lin
- Applicant: Chun-Kun Lee , Tsai-Cheng Lin
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Agent Winston Hsu; Scott Margo
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
A method for managing a memory apparatus including at least one non-volatile (NV) memory element includes: recording valid/invalid page position information of at least one block; and moving valid data contained in at least a valid page of the block according to the valid/invalid page position information; where the block is an erasing unit. For example, the valid/invalid page position information may contain relative position information of the valid data in the block. More particularly, the valid/invalid page position information may contain a plurality of bits, the ranking of each bit may represent a page address offset of each page within the block, and each bit may respectively indicate whether each page in the block is valid or invalid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120221829A1 METHOD FOR MANAGING A MEMORY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-08-30
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