Systems and methods for managing end of life in a solid state drive

DL Dreifus, RW Warren, B McKean - US Patent 8,176,367, 2012 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing
solid state drives. As an example, a storage system is described that include at least a first …

Systems and methods for governing the life cycle of a solid state drive

BD McKean, DL Dreifus, RW Warren - US Patent 8,151,137, 2012 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data
storage. As an example, storage devices are disclosed that include a plurality of memory …

Systems and methods for variable level use of a multi-level flash memory

RW Warren - US Patent 8,560,765, 2013 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and circuits for use
of a memory system. As one example, an electronics system is disclosed that includes a …

Systems and methods for re-designating memory regions as error code corrected memory regions

RW Warren - US Patent 8,499,220, 2013 - Google Patents
Flash memories have been used in a variety of devices where information stored by the
device must be maintained even when power is lost to the device. A typical flash memory …

Systems and methods for managing end of life in a solid state drive

DL Dreifus, RW Warren, B McKean - US Patent 8,745,449, 2014 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing
solid state drives. As an example, a storage system is described that include at least a first …

Systems and methods for last written page handling in a memory device

Z Chen, Y Cai, EF Haratsch, Z Dong - US Patent 9,378,810, 2016 - Google Patents
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8,289,768 8,381.077 8.458, 416 8.499. 220 8,560,765 2002/009 1965 2005/OO44459 …

Defect management policies for NAND flash memory

P Kalavade, F Zhu, SS Raghunathan… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND In a conventional storage system, Such as a nonvolatile storage system,
data can be stored in accordance with a predetermined error correction coding scheme …

Systems and methods for implementing error correction in relation to a flash memory

RW Warren - US Patent 8,381,077, 2013 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention provide sys tems, methods and circuits for
memories and utilization thereof. As one example, a memory system is disclosed that …

Systems and methods for circular buffering control in a memory device

RW Warren - US Patent 8,174,912, 2012 - Google Patents
(52) US Cl........... 365/189.16: 365/185.11: 365/189.05 Various embodiments of the present
invention provide sys (58) Field of Classification Search............. 365/189.16,-365/185.11 …

Systems and Methods for Switchable Memory Configuration

RW Warren - US Patent App. 12/716,262, 2011 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the disclosure provide systems, methods and circuits for
implementation and use of a memory system. As one example, a memory system is …