Smart Modular Assigned Patent
Solid state storage system with latency management
By Francis Pelletier | May 15, 2018 at 2:06 pmSMART Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,946,469) developed by Lin, Fong-Long, Fremont, CA, and Lin, Shu-Cheng, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “solid state storage system with latency management mechanism and method of operation thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A solid state storage system, and method of operation thereof, including: a system interface configured to receive host commands, a controller, coupled to the system interface, configured to identify frequently read data blocks from the host commands, a non-volatile memory, coupled to the controller, configured for access of the frequently read data blocks, an error correction code unit, coupled to the controller, configured to provide health monitor parameters for the frequently read data blocks verified by the controller, and a redundant frequently read data, (RFRD) area, coupled to the error correction code unit, configured to transfer a recovered data from the frequently read data blocks.”
The patent application was filed on March 21, 2016 (15/076,433).