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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Ka Ian Yung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven Sprouse, San Jose, CA (US);
Dhaval Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nathan Rapaport, Ma′alot, IL;
Ka Ian Yung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven Sprouse, San Jose, CA (US);
Dhaval Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nathan Rapaport, Ma′alot, IL;
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A non-volatile storage device has first and second controllers that provide external access to non-volatile memory using different protocols. In response to a request from the first controller, the second controller retrieves parameters from the non-volatile memory and provides the retrieved parameters to the first controller. In one embodiment, the device parameters are USB descriptors, which may include a vendor ID, a product ID, a product string, and/or a serial number. The first controller may be a Universal Serial Bus (USB) card reader controller. Examples of the second controller include a Secure Digital (SD) controller, a CompactFlash (CF) controller, a MemoryStick controller, or a different type of controller that is able to provide external access to the non-volatile memory. The first controller provides the device parameters to a host during enumeration of the non-volatile storage device. The device parameters may be used to establish settings for the first controller.