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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:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2019
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhenyu Zhu, Folsom, CA (US);

Mikal Hunsaker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Karthi R. Vadivelu, Folsom, CA (US);

Rahul Bhatt, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Kenneth P. Foust, Beaverton, OR (US);

Rajesh Bhaskar, Bangalore, IN;

Amit Kumar Srivastava, Folsom, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0042 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a flash sharing controller is to enable a plurality of components of a platform to share a flash memory. The flash sharing controller may include: a flash sharing class layer including a configuration controller to configure the plurality of components to be flash master devices and configure a flash sharing slave device for the flash memory; and a physical layer coupled to the flash sharing class layer to communicate with the plurality of components via a bus. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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