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US 2004/0205289 A1Published application
Reclaiming blocks in a block-alterable memory
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorSujaya Srinivasan
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes initiating a reclaim operation on a dirty block of a block-alterable memory if less than a predetermined number of unmapped blocks exist in the block-alterable memory; and writing data into free space of a spare block of the block-alterable memory while the reclaim operation is occurring.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- initiating a reclaim operation on a dirty block of a block-alterable memory if less than a predetermined number of unmapped blocks exist in the block-alterable memory;
- and
- writing data into a first portion of a spare block of the block-alterable memory while the reclaim operation is occurring.
A method comprising:
- maintaining a plurality of blocks of a formatted block-alterable memory in an unallocated state, the plurality of blocks in the unallocated state being clear of status information.
An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:
- initiate a reclaim operation on a dirty block of a block-alterable memory if less than a predetermined number of unmapped blocks exist in the block-alterable memory.
A system comprising:
- at least one storage device to store code to maintain a plurality of blocks of a formatted block-alterable memory in an unallocated state, the plurality of blocks in the unallocated state being clear of status information;
- and
- a dipole antenna coupled to the at least one storage device.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one storage device to store code to initiate a reclaim operation on a dirty block of a block-alterable memory if less than a predetermined number of unmapped blocks exist in the block-alterable memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.