US 12,704,979 B2 · Access-protection control for non-volatile memory

Abstract

An electronic device includes a memory interface and a Non-Volatile memory (NVM) controller. The memory interface is to communicate with an NVM. The NVM controller is to manage reading and writing of data in the NVM, to hold one or more Access-Protection (AP) policies that are defined for one or more respective AP requestors, and to permit or deny access to given data in the NVM in accordance with an AP policy defined for an AP requestor that requested the access to the given data.

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Dependent claims

An electronic device, comprising:

a memory interface, to communicate with a Non-Volatile memory (NVM);
and
an NVM controller, to:
manage reading and writing of data in the NVM;
hold one or more Write-Protection (WP) policies that are defined for one or more respective requestors;
receive a WP signal indicating whether writing to the NVM is permitted;
receive, from a requestor among the requestors, a request to write given data to the NVM;
and
permit writing of the given data to the NVM only when both (i) a WP policy defined for the requestor that requested the writing of the given data is met, and (ii) the WP signal indicates that writing to the NVM is permitted.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Access-protection control for non-volatile memory

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Abstract

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