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20090125710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOTING HOST - Provided are a method and a device for booting a host embodying a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS), wherein one of a plurality of pre-determined booting modes is decided as a booting mode of the host based on first information indicating whether a host can communicate with a broadcasting service provider and second information indicating whether a software-based security client providing information required for decrypting broadcasting data is installed to a hardware-based security module connected to the host, and the host is booted in the decided booting mode. | 05-14-2009 |
20090307228 | METHOD OF SHARING USAGE INFORMATION, AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Provided are a method, apparatus, and system for sharing usage information of daily life. Usage information sharing system includes: a first home network including at least one electronic device generating metadata with respect to human behavior; a first collecting device collecting metadata with respect to usage information from first home network; a second collecting device transmitting metadata of first home network that is received from the first collecting device to a second home network; and a second home network comprising at least one electronic device receiving the metadata from the second collecting device and performing an operation corresponding to the metadata. Accordingly, behavioral actions of a person in daily life can be dynamically recognized via a home network and home electronic devices and converted into metadata, and transmitted to another home network in real-time via a network. Thus, the experiences and feelings of a user can be dynamically shared. | 12-10-2009 |
20100174950 | METHOD AND SECURE MODULE FOR COMMUNICATION WITH HOST, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION WITH SECURE MODULE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SECURE MODULE - A method of communicating with a host in a security module providing information necessary for decrypting encrypted broadcast data received by the host, includes if an event occurs, characterizing the event as an event that a user of the host is to be notified about with regard to the decryption of the encrypted broadcast data, generating a user notification message including information about the event that occurred; and transmitting the user notification message to the host. | 07-08-2010 |
20100262910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIRTUAL IMAGE FILES - Provided is a method of processing virtual image files, the method including displaying a file list, receiving an input for selecting a virtual image file or a title from the file list, and extracting and playing back the selected virtual image file or the selected title. | 10-14-2010 |
20100293558 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT - Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling content. The method includes generating a user event corresponding to user input required for controlling the content when the user input is received, obtaining information regarding an application intended to process the user event, and generating user event scenario information into which the information regarding the application and information regarding the user event are combined. The apparatus includes a user event generator, an information obtaining unit, and an information generator. | 11-18-2010 |
20120030458 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOTING HOST - Provided are a method and a device for booting a host embodying a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS), wherein one of a plurality of pre-determined booting modes is decided as a booting mode of the host based on first information indicating whether a host can communicate with a broadcasting service provider and second information indicating whether a software-based security client providing information required for decrypting broadcasting data is installed to a hardware-based security module connected to the host, and the host is booted in the decided booting mode. | 02-02-2012 |
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20100125702 | Non-Volatile Memory System and Access Method Thereof - Disclosed is a method for accessing a non-volatile memory device using a flash translation layer. The method includes receiving a write request for data from a file system and recording the data in the non-volatile memory device in response to the write request. The flash translation layer is informed whether a confirm mark for the data is recorded or not from the file system. | 05-20-2010 |
20100146193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CACHE SYNCHRONIZATION - A system for cache synchronization includes a data managing unit and a storage medium. The data managing unit is configured to control storing of data of a buffer cache of the storage medium, in response to an event signal received from a host, by classifying the data of the buffer cache into random data and sequential data. The storage medium includes a first area and a second area, and is configured to store the random data and an address information map in the first area, and to store the sequential data in the second area. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153628 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SYSTEMS INCLUDING HEAT-SENSITIVE MEMORY DEVICES - A system code is stored in a first nonvolatile memory. The first nonvolatile memory and a second nonvolatile memory are heated during assembly of an electronic device including the first nonvolatile memory and a second nonvolatile memory. The heating is to a temperature sufficient to change a state of at least some memory cells in the second nonvolatile memory device. After the heating, the system code stored in the first nonvolatile memory is copied into the second nonvolatile memory. The first nonvolatile memory may he less vulnerable to temperature-related data alteration than the second nonvolatile memory. For example, the first nonvolatile memory may include a NAND flash memory and the second nonvolatile memory may include a variable resistance memory. | 06-17-2010 |
20100174853 | USER DEVICE INCLUDING FLASH AND RANDOM WRITE CACHE AND METHOD WRITING DATA - A method of writing data to a flash memory in a system includes; receiving write data to be written in the flash memory, determining whether the received write data is random write data or sequential write data, if the received write data is sequential write data, then directly writing the received write data to the flash memory, and if the received write data is random write data, then writing the received write data to the random write cache, and flushing the random write data from the random write cache to the flash memory during idle periods for the flash memory. | 07-08-2010 |
20100195418 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND SYSTEM - Provided is a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory chips and a control logic configured to execute an interleave program between the first and second memory chips. The control logic receives write data to be written into first and second memory blocks of the first memory chip. If the first and second memory blocks are normal blocks, the control logic simultaneously performs a program operation for the first and second memory blocks. If one memory block of the first and second memory blocks is a bad block, the control logic writes the received write data corresponding to the one memory block into a storage circuit. | 08-05-2010 |
20100208521 | Nonvolatile memory device, method of operating nonvolatile memory device and memory system including nonvolatile memory device - The method of operating the nonvolatile memory device may include performing a read operation on a first address region, comparing a read time of the first address region with a reference time, and storing read data from the read from the first address region in a second address region based on the comparison result. | 08-19-2010 |
20100220526 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAMMING METHOD - A nonvolatile memory device stores program data in a first address area, determines whether the first address area is a most significant address area and whether the program data is reliable data, and upon determining that the first address area is not a most significant address area and that the program data is reliable data, additionally stores the program data in a second address area. | 09-02-2010 |
20110271041 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING FLASH MEMORY AND RELATED METHOD OF HANDLING PROGRAM FAILURES - A storage device performs a program operation to store program data in a selected memory block of a flash memory. The storage device allocates a reserved area of the flash memory as a free block upon detecting that a program failure has occurred in the program operation, reads the program data from a cache latch in a page buffer of the flash memory, copies valid data stored in the selected memory block to a first area of the free block, and reprograms the program data read from the cache latch to a second area of the free block. | 11-03-2011 |
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20090182933 | DURABLE DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of operating a storage system, comprising: issuing a first command to write a first data to a first nonvolatile storage device; writing the first data to a second nonvolatile storage device if write condition is unstable; retrieving the first data from the second nonvolatile storage device; and writing the first data to the first nonvolatile storage device during a stable write condition, wherein whether write condition is stable is determined based on one of a sensor output or a memory access status signal, and wherein the memory access status signal is one of a predetermined value of retries, idling, access commands, or any combination thereof. | 07-16-2009 |
20100005239 | Methods and apparatus for copying data - In one embodiment, the method includes modifying data being copied such that portions of the data that include defects are replaced with dummy data. For example, a defective portion of the data is detected during a copy operation, and the data being copied is modified such that detected defective portions of the data are replaced with the dummy data. | 01-07-2010 |
20110191501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN A DISK DEVICE AND AN EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE - Provided are systems and methods to communicate data transfer of data between a disk device and an external storage device. A host can generate a control command to communicate with an external storage device, and a disk device to receive the control command from a host to identify and communicate with an external storage device when connected to the external storage device and to configure the external storage device by assigning an ID code to each storage area of the external storage device. | 08-04-2011 |
20110314207 | MEMORY SYSTEM, PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 12-22-2011 |
20120284452 | MEMORY SYSTEM, PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 11-08-2012 |
20120317313 | DISK DEVICE ASSIGNED ID CODES FOR STORAGE AREAS OF A STORAGE DEVICE - A disk device can include a controller configured to transmit first commands in response to second commands from a host, the first commands to assign at least one identification (ID) code to at least one of a plurality of storage areas in a storage device, the second commands including the at least one ID code; wherein the controller transfers data between the host and the storage device using the ID codes. | 12-13-2012 |
20140112070 | MEMORY SYSTEM, PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 04-24-2014 |