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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/310 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/310 ;
Abstract
A system for updating a flash memory of a peripheral device including a host sending an update content. The host sends an update content. The peripheral device contains a peripheral interface controller and a flash memory. The peripheral interface controller couples to the host, and the flash memory couples to the peripheral interface controller. When the peripheral interface controller detects a signal for updating the flash memory from the host, the peripheral interface controller updates the flash memory according to the update content.