MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441035138 A) filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 129, Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi- do, 443-742, Republic of Korea Republic of Korea, on May 3, 2024, for 'method and device for improved metadata management.'
Inventor(s) include Nishchay Malakar; Anantha Sharma; Sharath Kumar Kodase; Sushma Vishwakarma; and Gangheyamoorthy Ayyanar Ponnusamy.
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: "In the present disclosure, a method for improved metadata management includes receiving a memory write command from a host device, performing the data write operation, storing a mapping of the logical address and the physical address as a first logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping entry of the volatile memory and as a second L2P address mapping entry of the buffer, determining whether a number of the second set of L2P address mapping entries of the buffer exceeds a predefined number of L2P address mapping entries, upon determining that the number of the second set of L2P address mapping entries of the buffer exceeds the predefined number of L2P address mapping entries, sequentially reading the plurality of L2P address mapping tables of the non-volatile memory, and updating the a first set of L2P address mapping tables based on the first set of L2P address mapping entries of the volatile memory."
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