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US 12,242,378 B2Granted
Data storage device management system
AssigneeSanDisk Technologies LLC
InventorsRamanathan Muthiah, Balaji Thraksha Venkataramanan
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Abstract
Devices and techniques are disclosed wherein an end user can remotely trigger direct data management activities of a data storage device (DSD), such as creating a data snapshot, resetting a snapshot, and setting permissions at the DSD via a remote mobile device app interface.
Claims20
A method of remotely managing a data storage device, comprising:
- receiving control instructions at a portable data storage device via a wireless communication from a mobile device application configured to be installed on a remote mobile device capable of wireless communication;
- remotely triggering, in response to the control instructions, a snapshot of data stored at a non-volatile memory of the portable data storage device;
- imaging the data and valid logical-to-physical (L2P) pages associated with the data at the portable data storage device to form the snapshot;
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- setting access permissions during the snapshot, in response to the control instructions, including allowing a primary user access to a first portion of the non-volatile memory and to the snapshot and allowing a guest user access to the first portion of the non-volatile memory but not to the snapshot.
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A remotely managed portable data storage device, comprising:
- a means for operatively coupling with a host;
- a non-volatile memory for storing user data;
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- a controller configured to concurrently manage data operations and security settings at the non-volatile memory without manual intervention of the host in response to receiving control instructions via a wireless communication, including creating a snapshot of at least a portion of the non-volatile memory in response to receiving a remote snapshot request via the wireless communication, and concurrently setting access permissions including allowing a primary user access to a first portion of the non-volatile memory and to the snapshot and allowing a guest user access to the first portion of the non-volatile memory but not to the snapshot in response to receiving a single remote permissions request via the wireless communication.
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A system for remote data management, comprising:
- a portable data storage device including:
- an interface for operatively coupling with a host device;
- a non-volatile memory for storing user data;
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- a controller configured to create a snapshot of at least a portion of the non-volatile memory without manual intervention of the host device in response to receiving a remote snapshot request via a wireless communication,
- the controller further configured to, during the snapshot and in response to receiving a single remote permissions request via the wireless communication and without intervention of the host device:
- provide a primary user access to a first portion of the non-volatile memory and to the snapshot;
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- provide a guest user access to the first portion of the non-volatile memory but not to the snapshot;
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- a mobile device application configured to trigger transmission of the remote snapshot request and the remote permissions request via the wireless communication.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.