Patents by Inventor Hye Mi KANG
Hye Mi KANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11960765Abstract: The present technology relates to a storage device. According to the present technology, a memory controller controlling a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks may include an operation controller and a lifetime information controller. The operation controller may control the memory device to receive a write request from a host and perform a write operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks. The lifetime information controller may generate lifetime information including a lifetime level of the selected memory block based on an erase and write count of the selected memory block.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Patent number: 11941246Abstract: Disclosed are a data processing system comprising: a memory system for providing a host with a memory map segment including map pieces; and the host for storing the memory map segment as a host map segment and converting a logical address into a physical address using the host map segment. The memory system stores changed map pieces in a map cache, inserts the changed map pieces in a response to a first command, and provides the host with the response. The host updates the host map segment based on the changed map pieces. When a read command includes a logical address and a physical address, the memory system accesses a memory device using the physical address of the read command according to whether the logical address of the read command is stored in the map cache.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Publication number: 20240086318Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory system having improved performance. The memory system includes a memory device including memory blocks allocated to zones, a memory controller configured to send, to a host, a request for information on whether to perform a garbage collection operation on a target zone according to a trigger signal for performing a first internal operation, the target zone corresponding to a target memory block on which the first internal operation is to be performed, the target zone being included in the zones, and the host configured to provide the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation to the memory controller based on information related to the zones, in response to the request. The memory controller determines whether to perform the first internal operation on the target memory block, based on the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Hye Mi KANG
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Patent number: 11922048Abstract: A memory controller for controlling a memory device which stores logical-to-physical (L2P) segments includes a map data storage and a map manager. The map data storage stores a plurality of physical-to-logical (P2L) segments including mapping information between a physical address of the memory device in which write data is to be stored and a logical address received from a host, in response to a write request received from the host. The map manager updates the L2P segments stored in the memory device, based on target P2L segments corresponding to a write command provided to the memory device, which have a higher priority than the other P2L segments among the plurality of P2L segments. Each of L2P segments includes mapping information between a logical address and a physical address of data stored in the memory device.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Publication number: 20230418743Abstract: A data storage device may include a storage and a controller. The storage a storage including a first region of a first physical address range and a second region of a second physical address range. The controller may generate map data including a plurality of map segments, a first segment entry and a second segment entry, and store, in the second region, the map data except for a first map segment. Each of the map segments includes a set of physical addresses corresponding to a plurality of sequential logical addresses. The first segment entry includes a first segment physical address associated with the first map segment and belonging to the first physical address range, and the second segment entry includes a second segment physical address associated with a second map segment and belonging to the second physical address range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Do Hyung KIM, Chi Heon KIM, Joo Young Lee, Hoe Seung JUNG, Hye Mi KANG
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Patent number: 11853202Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory system having improved performance. The memory system includes a memory device including memory blocks allocated to zones, a memory controller configured to send, to a host, a request for information on whether to perform a garbage collection operation on a target zone according to a trigger signal for performing a first internal operation, the target zone corresponding to a target memory block on which the first internal operation is to be performed, the target zone being included in the zones, and the host configured to provide the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation to the memory controller based on information related to the zones, in response to the request. The memory controller determines whether to perform the first internal operation on the target memory block, based on the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Hye Mi Kang
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Patent number: 11847332Abstract: A data storage apparatus includes storage including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller configured to set an attribute of each of the memory blocks as a random memory block or a sequential memory block, and to manage validity of map data for data stored in each of the memory blocks using a map segment bitmap. The controller configures at least one memory block set by combining a set number of memory blocks, as a housekeeping event is triggered, and selects a victim block set from the at least one memory block set based on continuity of a logical address, or a number of valid map data, or both.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Patent number: 11775214Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the memory system may fetch a first command from the host into a command queue, suspend execution of the first command when receiving a lock request for the first command from the host, and resume the execution of the first command when receiving an unlock request for the first command or after the first command is suspended for an amount of time corresponding to a suspend time value transmitted together with the lock request.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Patent number: 11775211Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory controller according to the present technology may include a host interface controller, a plurality of buffers, and a memory operation controller. The host interface controller may sequentially generate a plurality of commands based on a request received from a host. The plurality of buffers may store the plurality of commands according to command attributes. The memory operation controller may compare a sequence number of a target command stored in a target buffer among the plurality of buffers with a sequence number of a standby command stored in remaining buffers, and may determine a process of the target command and a process of the standby command based on a comparison. wherein a buffer satisfying a flush condition among the plurality of buffers is selected as the target buffer.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Hye Mi Kang
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Publication number: 20230305712Abstract: A memory controller includes: a program operation controller configured to control a memory device to store data and individual mapping information; a mapping information storage configured to store therein mapping information; a mapping information update controller configured to control the memory device to store the mapping information in a second memory block; perform an update operation of updating the mapping information, and delay, when sequentiality of a predetermined number or more of logical addresses is maintained with respect to the predetermined time, the update operation until the sequentiality is broken; and a Sudden Power Off Recovery (SPOR) controller configured to receive the individual mapping information, recover the mapping information for the data stored in the page during a delay section and provide the recovered mapping information to the mapping information storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventor: Hye Mi KANG
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Publication number: 20230297248Abstract: A memory controller includes a data detection circuit configured to detect, when power is supplied after a sudden power-off (SPO), a lost write sequence index “M” among the plural write sequence indexes, and detect first data corresponding to a write sequence index “M?1” and second data corresponding to a write sequence index “M+1”; a barrier decision circuit configured to determine, based on whether first barrier information of the first data and second barrier information of the second data are identical with each other, whether a barrier request for the first data has been received from a host; and a data recovery operation determination circuit configured to determine whether to perform a recovery operation on target data corresponding to the write sequence index “M+1” and thereafter based on whether the barrier request for the first data has been received.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventor: Hye Mi KANG
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Publication number: 20230205689Abstract: A data storage device may include a storage and a controller. The storage a storage including a first region of a first physical address range and a second region of a second physical address range. The controller may generate map data including a plurality of map segments, a first segment entry and a second segment entry, and store, in the second region, the map data except for a first map segment. Each of the map segments includes a set of physical addresses corresponding to a plurality of sequential logical addresses. The first segment entry includes a first segment physical address associated with the first map segment and belonging to the first physical address range, and the second segment entry includes a second segment physical address associated with a second map segment and belonging to the second physical address range.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: Hye Mi KANG
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Patent number: 11567860Abstract: A memory system includes a storage medium and a controller. The storage medium includes a plurality of memory regions. The controller stores data corresponding to a write request into a memory region of a random attribute or a memory region of a sequential attribute among the memory regions and to update logical-to-physical (L2P) information corresponding to the stored data, and updates, when storing the data into the memory region of the random attribute, physical-to-logical (P2L) information corresponding to the stored data within a P2L table of the memory region of the random attribute.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Hye Mi Kang
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Patent number: 11561725Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and an operating method thereof. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a memory system may transmit a first type response indicating that first data has been cached in a cache to the host when receiving a first command requesting to write the first data from the host, and may transmit a second type response indicating success or failure of an operation of storing the first data in the memory device to the host after transmitting the first type response to the host. Further, the host may delete the first data from a write buffer after the operation of storing the first data in the memory device succeeds.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Patent number: 11550578Abstract: A data storage apparatus includes a storage device; a controller to control data input and output operations of the storage device; and a swap memory provided in an outside of the controller, wherein the controller includes a thread manager to perform a preparation operation on a first thread included in a task in response to a request for processing the task, request the storage device to process the first thread on which the preparation operation has been performed, perform a preparation operation on at least one subsequent thread following the first thread while the storage device processes the first thread, and store context data of the first thread and the at least one subsequent thread in the swap memory, wherein the task includes the first thread and the at least one subsequent thread, and the preparation operation includes an address mapping operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SK hynix IncInventors: Hye Mi Kang, Eu Joon Byun
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Patent number: 11543986Abstract: An electronic system includes a file system configured to assign logical block addresses corresponding to consecutive pieces of data sets of segments in a plurality of zones. The electronic system also includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a memory controller configured to map the logical block addresses to physical block addresses corresponding to consecutive pages in the plurality of memory blocks to program the consecutive pieces of data to the consecutive pages in the plurality of memory blocks. The file system is configured to assign new logical block addresses corresponding to consecutive pieces of a data file to invalid segments in the plurality of zones.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Hye Mi Kang
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Publication number: 20220398040Abstract: The present technology relates to a storage device. According to the present technology, a memory controller controlling a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks may include an operation controller and a lifetime information controller. The operation controller may control the memory device to receive a write request from a host and perform a write operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks. The lifetime information controller may generate lifetime information including a lifetime level of the selected memory block based on an erase and write count of the selected memory block.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Hye Mi KANG, Eu Joon BYUN
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Publication number: 20220391093Abstract: Disclosed are a data processing system comprising: a memory system for providing a host with a memory map segment including map pieces; and the host for storing the memory map segment as a host map segment and converting a logical address into a physical address using the host map segment. The memory system stores changed map pieces in a map cache, inserts the changed map pieces in a response to a first command, and provides the host with the response. The host updates the host map segment based on the changed map pieces. When a read command includes a logical address and a physical address, the memory system accesses a memory device using the physical address of the read command according to whether the logical address of the read command is stored in the map cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Hye Mi KANG, Eu Joon BYUN
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Patent number: 11520519Abstract: Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. A memory controller may include a command processor configured to generate a flush command in response to a flush request and determine flush data chunks to be stored, a write operation controller configured to control memory devices to perform a first program operation of storing flush data chunks, and to perform a second program operation of storing data corresponding to a write request that is input later than the flush request, regardless of whether a response to the flush command has been provided to a host, and a flush response controller configured to, when the first program operation is completed, provide a response to the flush command to the host depending on whether responses to flush commands, input earlier than the flush command, have been provided to the host.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Byung Jun Kim, Eu Joon Byun, Hye Mi Kang
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Patent number: 11487662Abstract: The present technology relates to a memory controller according to an embodiment includes a map caching controller generating a slot allocation request to allocate a physical slot in which a first map segment is to be stored among a plurality of physical slots, a map buffer manager outputting the first map segment, first physical slot information, and tree slot information, in response to the slot allocation request, and a mapping manager receiving the first map segment, the first physical slot information, and the tree slot information, deleting a second map segment and second physical slot information stored in a tree slot among a plurality of tree slots of a map tree, and storing the first map segment and the first physical slot information in the tree slot. At least one of the second map segment and the second physical slot information stored in the tree slot is invalid.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Hye Mi Kang