Buffer management using side information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8996963-B2
Application number	US-201213675177-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2012
Priority date	Nov 13, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Devices and/or methods for managing a buffer containing failed data may utilize side information related to the failed data. The side information may include, e.g., a decoding-success score representing an estimated amount of errors and/or a local host requested status for buffered or unbuffered failed data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
a storage medium comprising a plurality of data blocks, wherein each of the data blocks comprises a plurality of data portions;
a buffer configured to store one or more buffered failed data portions; and
a processor operably coupled to the storage medium and the buffer and configured to:
receive a failed data portion of one of the data blocks from the storage medium; and
determine whether the failed data portion should be stored i…

Assignees

• Seagate Technology Llc

Inventors

• Patapoutian Ara
• Nguyen Hieu

Classifications

• G11B20/10527 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/1012

  Physics · mapped topic

• H03M13/37 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H03M13/6343

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H03M13/3738

  Electricity · mapped topic