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20080201342 | Data storage device management system and method - A computing host executes a web browser to access a utility application for managing one or more storage devices connected to the computing host. Management of each storage device may include updating firmware of the storage device, updating programmable hardware of the storage device, erasing the storage device, sanitizing the storage device, logging events occurring in the storage device, and maintaining statistics on operation of the storage device. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201520 | Flash firmware management - A computing host executes a web browser to access a utility application for managing one or more storage devices connected to the computing host. Management of each storage device may include making queries about the storage spaces and contents of the storage device, updating firmware of the storage device, updating programmable hardware of the storage device, erasing the storage device, sanitizing the storage device, logging events occurring in the storage device, and maintaining statistics on operation of the storage device. | 08-21-2008 |
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20080240518 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE - An image capture apparatus comprises a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image, generator for generating a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display, a facial recognition unit operable to determine the position of a face within the feedback image, an image corruptor operable to corrupt the feedback image with respect to the position of a face within the feedback image as determined by the facial recognition unit, and an image capture initiator operable to initiate the capture of an output image subsequent to corruption of the feedback image. | 10-02-2008 |
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20100042901 | SUPPORTING VARIABLE SECTOR SIZES IN FLASH STORAGE DEVICES - A flash storage device comprises a plurality of data blocks, each data block comprising a plurality of data segments, a system memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to cache in the system memory a plurality of data sectors to be written, to write to a first one of the plurality of data segments a first one of the plurality of data sectors, to write to the first one of the plurality of data segments a first portion of a second one of the plurality of data sectors, and to write to a second one of the plurality of data segments a second portion of the second one of the plurality of data sectors. | 02-18-2010 |
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20120239852 | HIGH SPEED INPUT/OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IN SOLID STATE DEVICES - A method of transferring data in a flash storage device comprising a random access memory and a plurality of channels of a flash array is provided. The method comprises receiving a plurality of data segments from a host system, storing the plurality of data segments in the random access memory, allocating the plurality of data segments among the plurality of channels of the flash array, and writing the allocated data segments from the random access memory to the respective channels of the flash array. | 09-20-2012 |
20150254005 | HIGH SPEED INPUT/OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IN SOLID STATE DEVICES - A method of transferring data in a flash storage device is provided. A plurality of data segments for transfer between a memory buffer and a plurality of flash memory devices via a plurality of flash memory interfaces is associated with a plurality of respective memory commands. The plurality of memory commands are allocated among the plurality of flash memory interfaces, with each respective memory command being queued at a respective memory interface for transfer of a respective data segment associated with the respective memory command. The plurality of data segments are transferred between the memory buffer and the plurality of flash memory devices based on the plurality of memory commands, with each respective data segment being transferred via the memory interface to which the memory command associated with the respective data segment is queued. The data segments are transferred sequentially in an order corresponding to the queued memory commands. | 09-10-2015 |