US 12,333,139 B2
Memory system and operating method thereof
Sung Jin Park, Icheon-si (KR)
Assigned to SK HYNIX INC., Icheon-si (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,947.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0031417 (KR), filed on Mar. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0289059 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0604 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A memory system comprising:
a non-volatile memory device structured to store data; and
a controller in communication with the non-volatile memory device to control writing data in, and reading data from, the non-volatile memory device, and including a memory, wherein the controller is configured to store status data stored in the memory into the non-volatile memory device in case that an update flag indicates that the status data stored in the memory has been updated and to skip storing of the status data stored in the memory into the non-volatile memory device in case that the update flag indicates that the status data stored in the memory has not been updated, in response to a status data transmission request provided from an external device and instructing a transfer of the status data from the memory to the external device.