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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chando Park, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Seung Kang, San Diego, CA (US);

Sungryul Kim, San Diego, CA (US);

Wei-Chuan Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); H01L 43/02 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H01L 43/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/02 (2013.01); G01R 33/093 (2013.01); G01R 33/098 (2013.01); G11C 11/161 (2013.01); H01L 43/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to protecting the contents of memory in an electronic device, and in particular to systems and methods for transferring data between memories of an electronic device in the presence of strong magnetic fields. In one embodiment, a method of protecting data in a memory in an electronic device includes storing data in a first memory in the electronic device; determining, via a magnetic sensor, a strength of an ambient magnetic field; comparing the strength of the ambient magnetic field to a threshold; transferring the data in the first memory to a second memory in the electronic device upon determining that the strength of the ambient magnetic field exceeds the threshold; and transferring the data from the second memory to the first memory upon determining that the strength of the ambient magnetic field no longer exceeds the threshold.


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