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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vinod Sasidharan, Bangalore, IN;
Hitesh Golechchha, Bangalore, IN;
Dinesh Kumar Agarwal, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 21/77 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/46 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 12/1408 (2013.01); G06F 12/1466 (2013.01); G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 21/77 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2146 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory device operable in either of a Secure Digital operational mode and an NVMe operational mode includes password conversion logic to enable the memory device user-mode memory blocks to be accessed in the NVMe operational mode after the memory device was locked in the Secure Digital operational mode.