- Patent Title: Storage module and host device for storage module defragmentation
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Application No.: US14249063Application Date: 2014-04-09
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Publication No.: US09652154B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Yacov Duzly , Hadas Oshinsky , Shahar Bar-Or , Judah Gamliel Hahn
- Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Current Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Brinks Gilson & Lione
- Main IPC: G06F12/06
- IPC: G06F12/06 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A storage module and host device for storage module defragmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a host controller sends a storage module a first set of logical block addresses of a file stored in the storage module. The host controller receives a metric from the storage module indicative of a fragmentation level of the file in physical blocks of memory in the storage module. If the metric is greater than a threshold, the host controller reads the file and then writes it back to the storage module using a different set of logical block addresses. To avoid sending the file back and forth, in another embodiment, the host controller sends the fragmentation threshold and the different set of logical block addresses to the storage module. The storage module then moves the file itself if the metric indicative of the fragmentation level is greater than the threshold. Other embodiments are provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150220550A1 Storage Module and Host Device for Storage Module Defragmentation Public/Granted day:2015-08-06
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