ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,190, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Memory page error tracking" was invented by Kun Xu (Austin, Texas) and Leena Elzeiny (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In memory reads, an increase in a number of correctable errors increases a likelihood that an uncorrectable error will occur. Thus, tracking of correctable errors per memory page is one technique that can be used and if the number of errors on a memory page exceeds a threshold then the memory page can be replaced through dynamic memory re-mapping. However, having a counter per memory page to track the errors is costly due to t...