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US 12,287,694 B2Granted
Card and host apparatus
AssigneeKioxia Corporation
InventorAkihisa Fujimoto
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Abstract
A host apparatus, into which a card having a nonvolatile semiconductor memory is inserted, issues a check command to the card. The check command instructs to send information on whether the card supports a termination process in which the card shifts into a state ready for a stop of power supply from the host apparatus.
Claims7
A memory system comprising:
- a host device;
- and
- a memory device including a memory core and a memory controller, the memory device connected to the host device,
- the host device configured to:
- send a first command to the memory device,
- the memory controller configured to:
- transmit, in response to the first command, a response of status data that is used to determine whether the memory device supports a termination process, the termination process including shifting into a state ready for a stop of power supply from the host device,
- the host device configured to:
- receive the response transmitted from the memory device in response to the first command, and
- send a function stop command to the memory device so that the memory device performs the termination process in response to the function stop command,
- the memory controller configured to:
- perform the termination process in response to the function stop command from the host device, and
- transmit a first signal indicative of a busy state while performing the termination process,
- the host device configured to:
- receive the first signal indicative of the busy state while performing the termination process,
- the memory controller configured to:
- notify the host device of completion of the busy state by transmitting a second signal indicative of a ready state when the memory device completes the termination process, and
- the host device configured to:
- receive the second signal indicative of the ready state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.