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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:
Oct. 10, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2015
Applicant:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aws Shallal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Collins Williams, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dan Kunkel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

William Wolf, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 11/1446 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed to memory systems. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a memory system with a volatile memory, a persistent memory, and a controller. In a save operation, the controller copies contents of the volatile memory to the persistent memory as data units with their corresponding descriptor fields, where the descriptor fields include address information. In a restore operation, the controller copies data units from the persistent memory to their corresponding locations based on addresses stored at descriptor fields. There are other embodiments as well.


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