	US 12,079,487 B2
	Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives
Matias Bjorling, Copenhagen (DK); Horst-Christoph Georg Hellwig, Innsbruck (AT); David Landsman, Mercer Island, WA (US); Daniel L. Helmick, Broomfield, CO (US); Liam Parker, Edinburgh (GB); Alan D. Bennett, Edinburgh (GB); Peter Grayson, Grand Rapids, MI (US); and Judah Gamliel Hahn, Ofra (IL)
Assigned to Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/643,792.
Application 17/643,792 is a division of application No. 16/728,917, filed on Dec. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,209,989.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/905,894, filed on Sep. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100390 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01)

CPC G06F 3/0616 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1036 (2013.01)]

9 Claims

1. A storage device, comprising: non-volatile memory; and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory, wherein the controller is configured to: update zone metadata to indicate a logical block address (LBA) was skipped to indicate a next valid LBA is available to store data; update zone metadata to recommend to a host device to reset one or more full zones; recommend to the host device to transition one or more open zones to a full state; alert to the host device that one or more open zones have been transitioned to the full state; and collaborate with the host device on data placement and align data based on a same temperature, wherein collaborating comprises adding two new fields to the zone metadata, wherein the two new fields are: Transition Zone to Full Recommendation and Controller Transitioned Full Zone.