Method for erasing data entity in memory module
AssigneeMemory Technologies LLC
InventorKimmo Mylly
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Abstract
A method including storing a data entity using at least two sectors of a memory device, the at least two sectors associated to the same data entity, and maintaining, at a memory controller, context information of the data entity comprising a pointer to at least one of the at least two sectors of the memory device. The method further includes erasing the at least two sectors of the memory device using the context information.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- storing a data entity using at least two sectors of a memory device, the at least two sectors associated to the same data entity;
- maintaining, at a memory controller, context information of the data entity comprising a pointer to at least one of the at least two sectors of the memory device;
- and
- erasing the at least two sectors of the memory device using the context information.
A memory module, comprising:
- at least one memory device;
- a memory controller having an interface to an external host and to the at least one memory device;
- the memory device including computer program code, the computer program code being configured to, with the memory controller, cause the memory module at least to:
- store a data entity using at least two sectors of a memory device, the at least two sectors associated to the same data entity;
- maintain, at a memory controller, context information of the data entity comprising a pointer to at least one of the at least two sectors of the memory device;
- and
- erase the at least two sectors of the memory device using the context information.
A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium comprising computer executable program code which, when executed by at least one controller of a memory module, causes the memory module to:
- store a data entity using at least two sectors of a memory device, the at least two sectors associated to the same data entity;
- maintain, at a memory controller, context information of the data entity comprising a pointer to at least one of the at least two sectors of the memory device;
- and
- erase the at least two sectors of the memory device using the context information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.