Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Data storage system configured to write volatile scattered memory metadata to a non-volatile memory
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Application No.: US15803840Application Date: 2017-11-06
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Publication No.: US10402315B1Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Marvin Dela Cruz Fenol , Jik-Jik Oyong Abad , Precious Nezaiah Umali Pestano
- Applicant: BiTMICRO Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Fremont
- Assignee: BiTMICRO Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: BiTMICRO Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Fremont
- Agency: Adams Intellex, PLC
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F12/0831

Abstract:
In an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises: requesting an update or modification on a control data in at least one flash block in a storage memory; requesting a cache memory; replicating, from the storage memory to the cache memory, the control data to be updated or to be modified; moving a clean cache link list to a dirty cache link list so that the dirty cache link list is changed to reflect the update or modification on the control data; and moving the dirty cache link list to a for flush link list and writing an updated control data from the for flush link list to a free flash page in the storage memory.
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