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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
May. 15, 2007
Melvin James Bullen, Reston, VA (US);
Steven Louis Dodd, Reston, VA (US);
William Thomas Lynch, Apex, NC (US);
David James Herbison, Arvada, CO (US);
Melvin James Bullen, Reston, VA (US);
Steven Louis Dodd, Reston, VA (US);
William Thomas Lynch, Apex, NC (US);
David James Herbison, Arvada, CO (US);
Ring Technology Enterprises of Texas, LLC, Tyler, TX (US);
Abstract
A storage system that may include one or more memory devices, a memory interface device corresponding to one or more of the memory devices, which are organized in sections, and a section controller. In this system, a data request for the data may be received over a communications path by a section controller. The section controller determines the addresses in the memory devices storing the requested data, transfers these addresses to those memory devices storing the requested data, and transfers an identifier to the memory interface device. The memory device, in response, reads the data and transfers the data to its corresponding memory interface device. The memory interface device then adds to the data the identifier it received from the section controller and forwards the requested bits towards their destination, such that the data need not pass through the section controller.