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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:
May. 29, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Tatsunori Kanai, Yokohama, JP;

Tetsuro Kimura, Tokyo, JP;

Masaya Tarui, Kanagawa, JP;

Yusuke Shirota, Yokohama, JP;

Shiyo Yoshimura, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/0038 (2013.01); G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G11C 11/1675 (2013.01); G11C 11/1697 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); G11C 13/0004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to an embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller, and power storage. The controller is configured to receive, from a host device, a write request for writing data into the nonvolatile memory, and then, write the data based on the write request. The power storage is configured to store power supplied from a power supply. The controller writes, when abnormality in power supplied from the power supply to the memory device is detected, the data based on the write request that has already been received, using the power supplied from the power storage.


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