Lite-On Technology Assigned Patent

Lite-On Technology Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,019,398) developed by Hsu, Jen-Yu, Wang, Yi-Chiang, Liu, Chia-Hua, Yang, Chao-Ton, and Chang, Tsung-Ching, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “system with solid state drive and control method thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system includes a host device, an external bus and a storage device. A driver is installed in the host device. The external bus is connected with the host device. The external bus supports a communication protocol. The storage device includes a controlling circuit and a non-volatile memory. After the storage device issues a request to the host device according to the communication protocol, a reserved space is created in a host memory of the host device in response to the request, and a device information from the storage device is stored into the reserved space. While the host device issues a first command to operate the storage device, the first command is converted into a second command by the driver according to the device information, and then the second command is transmitted to the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on October 18, 2017 (15/786,726).