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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:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ross John Stenfort, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/0778 (2013.01); G03F 7/70225 (2013.01); G03F 7/70341 (2013.01); G06F 11/073 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0766 (2013.01); G06F 11/0769 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a host device to request and obtain failure information from a solid state drive (SSD). In operation, an error is detected during an operation associated with a solid state drive. Additionally, a command to return failure information is provided to the solid state drive by a host device. Further, the failure information is sent from the solid state drive to the host device, the failure information including failure information associated with the solid state drive.