Patent 7130979 was granted and assigned to Micron Technology on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for managing a range of memory in a flash memory space in which a plurality of data objects are stored. A volume defined for the range of memory has a first end and second end, with a respective list of data objects associated with each end. The volume can be resized, moved, and reallocated in the flash memory space without recompilation.