Granted Patent B2

US 6,898,662 · App. 10/260,181 · Granted May 24, 2005

Abstract

Claims (7)

1. A method of storing a logical grouping of memory system sectors in a non-volatile memory system in order to increase the operational speed of the memory system, the method comprising:

allocating sets of contiguous logical sectors including file data from a host system into logical groups, the system sectors being organized into clusters.

ensuring that a logical group includes fewer sectors than there are sector locations in a memory block in the non-volatile memory;

aligning the logical groups with the clusters into which the host system organizes sectors including file data;

writing sectors within a logical group to contiguous locations within the non-volatile memory; and

organizing the non-volatile memory such that the corresponding sector in each logical group is written to a corresponding array within the non-volatile memory, the arrangement being such that reading then writing of a sector of a cluster to relocate it to a different location in the non-volatile memory takes place within the same array thereby allowing concurrent relocation of all sectors in a logical group.

2. A method of storing as recited in claim 1 wherein logical groups are written to non-volatile memory blocks in such a way that at least one non-volatile memory block includes a logical group which is not logically contiguous with its neighboring logical group within the block.

Assignments (9)