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Advanced management of a non-volatile memory

  • US 9,195,592 B1
  • Filed: 12/04/2013
  • Issued: 11/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of managing a non-volatile memory module, the method comprising:

  • allocating, by a memory controller, logically erased physical blocks of a non-volatile memory module to a spare block pool;

    allocating, by the memory controller, physical blocks from the spare block pool to become buffer blocks of a buffer of the non-volatile memory module; and

    controlling, by the memory controller, a utilization of the buffer blocks of the buffer by applying a page based buffer management scheme.

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