MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547096549 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, on Oct. 7, for 'spare memory management in data storage device.'
Inventor(s) include Akavaram, Santhosh Reddy; Srivastava, Prakhar; Anumala, Sridhar; Vuong, Hung; Jabreva, Sonali; and Kumari, Khushboo.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques and procedures for storing data in a data storage device that uses nonvolatile memory (NVM) to store data. The NVM can be organized into logical units that are assigned respective logical unit numbers. The data storage device can report to a host the amount of spare blocks needed for one or more logical units (LUs), and then the host can relinquish some memory blocks to be reallocated as spare blocks. The data storage device can implement a spare block resource management policy per LU and allocate a predetermined amount of spare blocks per LU. The data storage device can implement a spare block resource management policy per memory type and allocate a predetermined amount of spare blocks for LUs with the same memory type."
The patent application was internationally filed on Apr. 10, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/023806.
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