Status switching method
AssigneeSilicon Motion, Inc.
InventorsYao-Chung Hsu, Tuan-Chieh Wang, Chi-Chih Kuan, Chun-Yu Chen
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Abstract
The present invention provides a status switching method applied to a slave device. The status switching method includes: receiving a command wrapper from a host device; receiving a status query command corresponding to the command wrapper from the host device; transmitting a status wrapper to the host device in response to the status query command; and refusing to enter a low-power status corresponding to a switch status request when the switch status request is received during a specific period, wherein the specific period starts when the command wrapper is received and ends when the status wrapper is transmitted.
Claims10
A status switching method, applied to a slave device, wherein the status switching method comprises:
- receiving a command wrapper from a host device;
- receiving a status query command corresponding to the command wrapper form the host device;
- transmitting a status wrapper to the host device in response to the status query command;
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- refusing to enter a low-power status corresponding to a switch status request when the switch status request is received during a specific period, wherein the specific period starts when the command wrapper is received and ends when the status wrapper is transmitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.