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| 20080222208 | Methods for managing files according to application - The present invention discloses methods for managing files according to application. A method for accessing files in a digital storage device, the method including the steps of: providing an application having an application identity; and adjusting a storage mode of a file according to the application identity upon the application accessing the file. Preferably, the step of providing includes providing a PID that is an indicator of the application identity. Preferably, the step of adjusting includes adjusting the storage mode according to a storage command associated with an application scenario of the application. Preferably, the step of adjusting is performed using an SAT. Preferably, the step of adjusting is performed using an AST. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222348 | File system for managing files according to application - The present invention discloses systems for managing files according to application. A digital storage system including: a storage memory having program code configured: to identify an application identity of an application issuing a storage command to access a file; and to adjust a storage mode of the file according to the application identity; and a processor for executing the program code. Preferably, the identifying is performed using a PID that is an indicator of the application identity. Preferably, the adjusting includes adjusting the storage mode according to the storage command. Preferably, the adjusting is performed using an SAT and/or an AST. A digital storage system including: a storage memory having program code configured: to identify an application scenario associated with a storage command to access a file; and to adjust a storage mode of the file according to the application scenario; and a processor for executing the program code. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080276058 | Storage Device For Data-Smuggling - A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code embodied thereon including: program code for restricting access, by a file system running on a host system, to a restricted area of a storage area of a storage device; and program code for enabling at least one application to access the restricted area via the file system. Preferably, the computer-readable code further includes: program code for enabling the storage device to copy data from a non-restricted area to the restricted area. Preferably, the computer-readable code further includes: program code for directing the storage device to route host-system read-requests, directed to addresses in the restricted area, to addresses in a non-restricted area. Preferably, the computer-readable code further includes: program code for applying access commands of the host system to restricted data residing in the restricted area when the host system requests access to non-restricted data addressed to a non-restricted area. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080301341 | Management Of Internal Operations By A Storage Device - A method enables a storage device to autonomously (i.e., without intervention of a host device) determines whether an integral sequence of commands, which is related to one or more storage commands issued by the host device, is in a certain state (i.e., it is “active” or “inactive”) or is transitioning from “active” state to “inactive” state, or from “inactive” state to “active” state. Depending on the determined state or transition, the storage device determines whether to refrain from executing Extra-Sequence (“ESQ”) operations and permit executing Intra-Sequence (“ISQ”) operations, or vice versa. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090002957 | MEMORY INTERFACE CARD WITH SIM FUNCTIONS - A plug-in adapter includes a first contact for connection to a host device, at least two second contacts for connection to a memory card, and a third contact for connection to a subscriber identity module (SIM) component. Circuitry in the adapter connects at least one of the second contacts to the third contact and connects at least another of the second contacts to the first contact so as to create a communication path between the host device and the SIM component via the memory card. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006748 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MEMORY INTERFACE WITH SIM FUNCTIONS - A method for operating a host device includes inserting a plug-in adapter, having a subscriber identity module (SIM) component disposed thereon, into a host receptacle of the host device. A memory card is inserted into a memory receptacle on the plug-in adapter. After inserting the plug-in adapter and the memory card, communications are conveyed between the host device and the SIM component via the adapter and the memory card. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090172040 | FILE SYSTEM THAT MANAGES FILES ACCORDING TO CONTENT - A method of managing a plurality of files according to their respective instances of a property of the files, a data processing device that uses the method, and a computer readable storage medium bearing code for implementing the method. The files of at least one of the instances are managed according to a management protocol respective to that/those instance(s). Preferably, all the other files are managed according to a common default management protocol. Different protocols trade off performance vs. ruggedness, trade off average performance vs. latency, or include different defragmentation policies. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172694 | CACHE MANAGEMENT - A number of applications can be run by the computing system. Such applications can execute independently from each other and can also each independently manage a corresponding set of content stored on the LSD. One of the advantages presented by the invention is the ability of the LSD to inform one application of the content made available on the LSD by another one of the applications even though the applications have no relationship to each other. In this way, a synergy between the independent applications can be achieved providing a co-operative environment that can result in, for example, improved operation of the computing system, improved resource (i.e., memory, bandwidth, processing) allocation and use, and other factors. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172802 | LOCAL PROXY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A local proxy system includes a storage device having a local proxy and a physical port connection. The local proxy is part of a split proxy configuration having a local proxy and a remote proxy. The physical port connection is operative to receive commands from a host via an internet application protocol; and to transmit commands to the host via a modem control protocol, to thereby function as a gateway for conveying these commands to a remote proxy, via the host. Also provided is a method of optimizing communication over a network; and a local proxy system that includes a storage device having a local proxy. The storage device is in connection with a host via a physical port connection complying with a standard storage device interface. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090177781 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH STORAGE SYSTEMS USING SLIM IP STACKS - Methods, and associated devices, media, and systems, for establishing a communication link between a host system and a storage device are provided. Such a method includes the steps of: providing a communication stack having only an application layer and a physical layer; and establishing a communication channel between a host system and the storage device using the communication stack. The step of establishing may be performed via a TCP/IP emulator in a host-system side and a storage-command interpreter in a storage-device side. The method may further include: establishing a communication channel between the host system and a device having a static-IP address; and establishing a communication channel between the host system and a device having a storage identifier that is embedded into one of command parameters sent by the application layer or the physical layer to the TCP/IP emulator. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177848 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLASSIFYING STORAGE SYSTEMS USING FIXED STATIC-IP ADDRESSES - A storage system for exchanging data with a host system, the storage system including a plurality of storage devices, each of the storage devices including: a non-volatile memory, wherein a fixed static-IP address resides in the non-volatile memory, the fixed static-IP address being common to two or more of the plurality of storage devices, and the fixed static-IP address providing enablement of a storage-device functionality of the storage device; a physical interface for operationally connecting the storage device with the host system; and a memory controller for: controlling the respective non-volatile memory; and exchanging data, using a communication protocol, via the respective fixed static-IP address. For at least one of the storage devices, the respective fixed static-IP address may be pre-loaded into the respective non-volatile memory during manufacture, or installed in the respective non-volatile memory after manufacture. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090198869 | ERASE COUNT RECOVERY - An erase count of a flash memory block which is lost, e.g., due to power failure is updated or replaced by using known erase counts of other blocks of the flash memory. A flash management algorithm assigns a new erase count value instead of the lost one based on either a maximum value, an average value or a value combining the maximum value of the known erase counts and some tolerance value. The known values may be obtained from wear leveling data or from a stored erase history. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100023718 | Methods For Data-Smuggling - The present invention discloses methods for an application, running on a host system, to access a restricted area of a storage device, the method including the steps of: providing a file system for running on the host system; restricting access, by the file system, to the restricted area; sending an indication, from the application to the storage device, that data being sent by the application to the storage device via the file system is intended for the restricted area; detecting the indication in the storage device; and making the data, residing in the restricted area, available for reading by the application upon receiving an application request. Preferably, the method further includes the step of: releasing wasted areas, of the storage device, for use by the file system. Preferably, the method further includes the step of: copying non-restricted data from a non-restricted area into the restricted area. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100274962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A CACHING POLICY FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - The present disclosure relates to methods, devices and computer-readable medium for implementing a caching policy and/or a cache flushing policy in a peripheral non-volatile storage device operatively coupled to a host device. In some embodiments, data is stored to a cache area of a non-volatile memory within the peripheral non-volatile storage device in accordance with a historical rate at which other data was received by the peripheral storage device from the host device and/or a historical average time interval between successive host write requests received and/or an assessed rate at which data is required to be written to the non-volatile memory and/or a detecting by the peripheral non-volatile memory device that the host has read the storage ready/busy flag. In some embodiments, data is copied from a cache storage area of the non-volatile memory to a main storage area in accordance with the historical rate and/or the historical average time interval. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100299456 | MANAGEMENT OF INTERNAL OPERATIONS BY A STORAGE DEVICE - A method of handling internal operations of a storage device includes in response to information derived from one or more commands received from a host device when the storage device is coupled to the host device, determining whether a sequence of commands is in one of an active state, and a first transition state, where in the first transition state the sequence of commands is transitioning from an inactive state to the active state. The method includes, while the sequence of commands is in the active state or in the first transition state, refraining from executing any operation of a first set of internal memory management operations, each of the first set of internal memory management operations being an extra-sequence operation. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110087790 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH STORAGE SYSTEMS USING SLIM IP STACKS - Methods, and associated devices, media, and systems, for establishing a communication link between a host system and a storage device are provided. One method includes an operation for providing on the host a communication stack including a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) module and a host physical layer module. The storage device includes a storage command extractor, and the method includes another operation for establishing a communication channel between an application in the host and the storage device, where the communication channel uses the communication stack and the storage command extractor. In the method, the TCP/IP module converts TCP/IP commands received from the application in the host to storage commands for the storage device. | 04-14-2011 |
