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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:
Nov. 04, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX (US);

Farzad Khosrowpour, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Marco A. Peereboom, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX (US);

Farzad Khosrowpour, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Marco A. Peereboom, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 17/30188 (2013.01); G06F 12/1416 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 3/0623 (2013.01);
Abstract

A Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) memory controller receives data from a processing system that is addressed to a location in a storage device, stores the data and a tag at the location, receives second data from the processing system that is addressed to the location, determines that the location includes the tag, and prevents the second data from being stored at the location based upon the presence of the tag. A WORM memory device sends a reply to a controller in response to an initialization command. The reply includes an address number that corresponds with the storage capacity of the WORM memory device. The WORM memory device sends another reply to another controller in response to another initialization command. The initialization commands are different from each other. The other initialization reply includes an address number of zero.


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