Raymx Microelectronics Assigned Patent
Storage device and accessing method for operation log
By Francis Pelletier | December 5, 2022 at 2:00 pmRaymx Microelectronics Corp., Hefei, China, has been assigned a patent (11494112) developed by Fu, Yinghui, Hefei, China, and Liu, Xin, Anqing, China, for “storage device and accessing method for operation log thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed is a method for maintaining operation log information stored in a non-volatile memory of a storage device. The method includes the steps of: configuring a buffer area of a volatile memory, caching the operation log information into the buffer area, writing the operation log information stored in the buffer area into a predetermined storage area of the non-volatile memory, repeatedly updating the operation log information to the predetermined storage area, and initializing the storage device, which includes the following steps of enabling a watchdog timer in a controller, fetching the latest operation log information by reading the predetermined storage area when the watchdog timer counts a predetermined time and the storage device does not complete the initialization, configuring the storage device to perform a force low-level formatting after the latest operation log information is fetched, and disabling the watchdog timer when the storage device completes the initialization.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-07-27 (17/386351).