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21. 发明授权

US08713026B2 Method for playing digital media files with a digital media player using a plurality of playlists 有权
标题翻译：使用多个播放列表与数字媒体播放器一起播放数字媒体文件的方法
公开(公告)号：US08713026B2
公开(公告)日：2014-04-29
申请号：US12157844
申请日：2008-06-13
申请人： Richard C. Spence , Kevin M. Conley
发明人： Richard C. Spence , Kevin M. Conley
IPC分类号： G06F17/30
CPC分类号： G06F17/30053
摘要： A method for playing digital media files with a digital media player using a plurality of playlists is disclosed. One embodiment uses a plurality of playlists—instead of a single playlist—to reference a given pool of digital media files. After the songs of one playlist have been played, another playlist is selected, and songs from that playlist are played. Since the playlist selection is automatically made by the digital media player while it is offline, a fresh listening experience is created without requiring the user to connect the digital media player to the Internet. Preferably, each playlist is purposefully curated to ensure that the play order keeps the experience commensurate with a particular brand message.
摘要翻译：公开了一种使用多个播放列表与数字媒体播放器播放数字媒体文件的方法。一个实施例使用多个播放列表（而不是单个播放列表）来引用给定的数字媒体文件池。在播放一个播放列表的歌曲之后，选择另一个播放列表，并播放该播放列表中的歌曲。由于数字媒体播放器在离线时自动进行播放列表选择，所以创建新的聆听体验，而不需要用户将数字媒体播放器连接到因特网。优选地，有意地策划每个播放列表以确保播放顺序保持与特定品牌消息相称的体验。

22. 发明授权

US08607016B2 FAT analysis for optimized sequential cluster management 有权
标题翻译： FAT分析优化顺序集群管理
公开(公告)号：US08607016B2
公开(公告)日：2013-12-10
申请号：US11022369
申请日：2004-12-23
申请人： Kevin M. Conley , Alan Welsh Sinclair , Peter John Smith
发明人： Kevin M. Conley , Alan Welsh Sinclair , Peter John Smith
IPC分类号： G06F12/00 , G06F13/00 , G06F13/28 , G06F17/30
CPC分类号： G06F3/064 , G06F3/061 , G06F3/0643 , G06F3/0679 , G06F12/0246
摘要： Techniques for managing data in a non-volatile memory system (e.g., Flash Memory) are disclosed. A controller can use information relating to a host's file system, which is stored by the host on non-volatile memory, to determine if one or more clusters (or sectors with clusters) are currently allocated. The controller can use the information relating to the host's file system to identify when the host is sending data to the next free cluster and to store such data in a sequential format by copying data from other locations in the non-volatile memory.
摘要翻译：公开了用于在非易失性存储器系统（例如，闪存）中管理数据的技术。控制器可以使用由主机在非易失性存储器上存储的主机文件系统相关的信息来确定当前是否分配了一个或多个集群（或具有集群的扇区）。控制器可以使用与主机文件系统相关的信息来识别主机何时向下一个空闲簇发送数据，并通过从非易失性存储器中的其他位置复制数据来以顺序格式存储这些数据。

23. 发明申请

US20130042057A1 Hybrid Non-Volatile Memory System 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20130042057A1
公开(公告)日：2013-02-14
申请号：US13586352
申请日：2012-08-15
申请人： Alan Welsh Sinclair , Sergey Anatolievich Gorohets , Kevin M. Conley , Carlos J. Gonzalez
发明人： Alan Welsh Sinclair , Sergey Anatolievich Gorohets , Kevin M. Conley , Carlos J. Gonzalez
IPC分类号： G06F12/02
CPC分类号： G06F12/0246 , G06F3/061 , G06F3/0626 , G06F3/0658 , G06F3/0679 , G06F12/0893 , G06F2212/7201 , G06F2212/7203 , G11C14/0036 , G11C14/0045
摘要： A hybrid non-volatile system uses non-volatile memories based on two or more different non-volatile memory technologies in order to exploit their relative advantages. In an exemplary embodiment, the memory system includes a controller and a flash memory, where the controller has a non-volatile RAM based on an alternate technology such as FeRAM. The flash memory is used for the storage of user data and the non-volatile RAM in the controller is used for system control data. The use of an alternate non-volatile memory technology in the controller allows for a non-volatile copy of the most recent control data to be accessed more quickly as it can be updated on a bit by bit basis. In another exemplary embodiment, the alternate non-volatile memory is used as a cache where data can safely be staged prior to its being written to the memory or read back to the host.

24. 发明授权

US08050095B2 Flash memory data correction and scrub techniques 有权
标题翻译：闪存数据校正和擦除技术
公开(公告)号：US08050095B2
公开(公告)日：2011-11-01
申请号：US12945000
申请日：2010-11-12
申请人： Carlos J. Gonzalez , Kevin M. Conley
发明人： Carlos J. Gonzalez , Kevin M. Conley
IPC分类号： G11C16/04
CPC分类号： G06F11/106 , G06F11/1068 , G11C8/08
摘要： In order to maintain the integrity of data stored in a flash memory that are susceptible to being disturbed by operations in adjacent regions of the memory, disturb events cause the data to be read, corrected and re-written before becoming so corrupted that valid data cannot be recovered. The sometimes conflicting needs to maintain data integrity and system performance are balanced by deferring execution of some of the corrective action when the memory system has other high priority operations to perform. In a memory system utilizing very large units of erase, the corrective process is executed in a manner that is consistent with efficiently rewriting an amount of data much less than the capacity of a unit of erase.
摘要翻译：为了保持存储在闪速存储器中的数据的完整性，其易于被存储器的相邻区域中的操作干扰，干扰事件导致在变得如此损坏之前读取，校正和重新写入数据，使得有效数据不能被收回。当存储器系统具有执行其他高优先级操作时，通过推迟执行某些纠正措施来平衡维护数据完整性和系统性能的有时冲突的需求。在使用非常大的擦除单位的存储器系统中，以与有效地重写远远小于擦除单位的容量的数据量相一致的方式执行校正处理。

25. 发明授权

US07970987B2 Partial block data programming and reading operations in a non-volatile memory 有权
标题翻译：非易失性存储器中的部分块数据编程和读取操作
公开(公告)号：US07970987B2
公开(公告)日：2011-06-28
申请号：US12900397
申请日：2010-10-07
申请人： Kevin M. Conley
发明人： Kevin M. Conley
IPC分类号： G06F12/00
CPC分类号： G11C16/102 , G06F12/0246 , G06F2212/1016 , G06F2212/1032 , G06F2212/7202 , G06F2212/7208 , G06F2212/7209 , G11C16/105 , G11C2216/16
摘要： Data in less than all of the pages of a non-volatile memory block are updated by programming the new data in unused pages of either the same or another block. In order to prevent having to copy unchanged pages of data into the new block, or to program flags into superceded pages of data, the pages of new data are identified by the same logical address as the pages of data which they superceded and a time stamp is added to note when each page was written. When reading the data, the most recent pages of data are used and the older superceded pages of data are ignored. This technique is also applied to metablocks that include one block from each of several different units of a memory array, by directing all page updates to a single unused block in one of the units.
摘要翻译：通过对相同或另一块的未使用页面中的新数据进行编程来更新少于非易失性存储器块的所有页面中的数据。为了防止不必要将不变的数据页复制到新的块中，或者将标记编程到被替换的数据页面中，新数据的页面被与它们所取代的数据页面相同的逻辑地址标识，并且时间戳当每个页面被写入时都会添加注释。当读取数据时，将使用最新的数据页面，并忽略较旧的旧版数据页面。通过将所有页面更新指向一个单元中的单个未使用的块，该技术也应用于包含来自存储器阵列的几个不同单元中的每一个的一个块的元区块。

26. 发明授权

US07889554B2 Flash EEPROM system with simultaneous multiple data sector programming and storage of physical block characteristics in other designated blocks 有权
标题翻译：闪存EEPROM系统具有同时多个数据扇区编程和存储其他指定块中的物理块特性
公开(公告)号：US07889554B2
公开(公告)日：2011-02-15
申请号：US12624258
申请日：2009-11-23
申请人： Kevin M. Conley , John S. Mangan , Jeffrey G. Craig
发明人： Kevin M. Conley , John S. Mangan , Jeffrey G. Craig
IPC分类号： G11C16/04
CPC分类号： G11C16/107 , G06F12/0246 , G06F2212/7203 , G06F2212/7207 , G06F2212/7208 , G11C16/10 , G11C16/3459 , G11C29/82 , G11C2216/14
摘要： A non-volatile memory system is formed of floating gate memory cells arranged in blocks as the smallest unit of memory cells that are erasable together. One feature is the storage in separate blocks of the characteristics of a large number of blocks of cells in which user data is stored. According to another feature, multiple sectors of user data are stored at one time by alternately streaming chunks of data from the sectors to multiple memory blocks. Yet another feature, for memory systems having multiple memory integrated circuit chips, provides a single system record that includes the capacity of each of the chips and assigned contiguous logical address ranges of user data blocks within the chips which the memory controller accesses when addressing a block, making it easier to manufacture a memory system with memory chips having different capacities.
摘要翻译：非易失性存储器系统由以块为单位布置的浮动栅极存储单元形成为可以一起可擦除的最小单元的存储器单元。一个特征是在单独的块中存储其中存储用户数据的大量小区块的特性。根据另一特征，通过将来自扇区的数据块交替地流向多个存储块，一次存储多个扇区的用户数据。对于具有多个存储器集成电路芯片的存储器系统，又一特征提供了单个系统记录，该系统记录包括每个芯片的容量，并且在寻址块时存储器控制器访问的芯片内分配的用户数据块的连续逻辑地址范围，使得容易制造具有不同容量的存储器芯片的存储器系统。

27. 发明授权

US07805663B2 Methods of adapting operation of nonvolatile memory 有权
标题翻译：适应非易失性存储器操作的方法
公开(公告)号：US07805663B2
公开(公告)日：2010-09-28
申请号：US11536347
申请日：2006-09-28
申请人： Yigal Brandman , Kevin M. Conley
发明人： Yigal Brandman , Kevin M. Conley
IPC分类号： H03M13/03
CPC分类号： G06F11/1072 , G06F11/1068 , G11C2029/0411
摘要： In a nonvolatile memory system a Soft-Input Soft-Output (SISO) decoder corrects errors in data that is read from a memory and a statistical unit connected to the SISO decoder collects data regarding corrections. The statistical unit generates at least one output based on the collected data and at least one operating parameter of the memory is modified in response to the output.
摘要翻译：在非易失性存储器系统中，软输入软输出（SISO）解码器校正从存储器读取的数据中的错误，并且连接到SISO解码器的统计单元收集关于校正的数据。统计单元基于收集的数据生成至少一个输出，并且响应于输出修改存储器的至少一个操作参数。

28. 发明申请

US20100023681A1 Hybrid Non-Volatile Memory System 审中-公开
标题翻译：混合非易失性存储器系统
公开(公告)号：US20100023681A1
公开(公告)日：2010-01-28
申请号：US12572844
申请日：2009-10-02
申请人： Alan Welsh Sinclair , Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets , Kevin M. Conley , Carlos J. Gonzalez
发明人： Alan Welsh Sinclair , Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets , Kevin M. Conley , Carlos J. Gonzalez
IPC分类号： G06F12/00 , G06F12/02
CPC分类号： G06F12/0246 , G06F3/061 , G06F3/0626 , G06F3/0658 , G06F3/0679 , G06F12/0893 , G06F2212/7201 , G06F2212/7203 , G11C14/0036 , G11C14/0045
摘要： The present invention presents a hybrid non-volatile system that uses non-volatile memories based on two or more different non-volatile memory technologies in order to exploit the relative advantages of each these technology with respect to the others. In an exemplary embodiment, the memory system includes a controller and a flash memory, where the controller has a non-volatile RAM based on an alternate technology such as FeRAM. The flash memory is used for the storage of user data and the non-volatile RAM in the controller is used for system control data used by the control to manage the storage of host data in the flash memory. The use of an alternate non-volatile memory technology in the controller allows for a non-volatile copy of the most recent control data to be accessed more quickly as it can be updated on a bit by bit basis. In another exemplary embodiment, the alternate non-volatile memory is used as a cache where data can safely be staged prior to its being written to the to the memory or read back to the host.
摘要翻译：本发明提出了一种混合非易失性系统，其使用基于两个或多个不同的非易失性存储器技术的非易失性存储器，以利用这些技术相对于其他技术的相对优点。在示例性实施例中，存储器系统包括控制器和闪存，其中控制器具有基于诸如FeRAM的替代技术的非易失性RAM。闪存用于存储用户数据，并且控制器中的非易失性RAM用于由控制器用于管理闪存中的主机数据的存储的系统控制数据。在控制器中使用替代的非易失性存储器技术允许更快速地访问最近的控制数据的非易失性拷贝，因为它可以逐点更新。在另一个示例性实施例中，备用非易失性存储器用作高速缓存，其中数据可以在其被写入存储器或读回主机之前安全地分级。

29. 发明授权

US07634585B2 In-line cache using nonvolatile memory between host and disk device 有权
标题翻译：使用主机和磁盘设备之间的非易失性内存的在线缓存
公开(公告)号：US07634585B2
公开(公告)日：2009-12-15
申请号：US11267534
申请日：2005-11-04
申请人： Kevin M. Conley , E. Earle Thompson
发明人： Kevin M. Conley , E. Earle Thompson
IPC分类号： G06F3/00 , G06F5/00 , G06F13/42 , G06F12/00 , G06F13/00 , G06F13/28 , G06F9/26 , G06F9/34 , G06F11/30 , G06F12/14 , G06F1/26 , G06F1/32 , G06F1/00
CPC分类号： G06F12/0866 , G06F3/0601 , G06F12/0804 , G06F2003/0694 , G06F2212/2022 , G06F2212/2146 , G06F2212/222 , G06F2212/2515 , Y02D10/13
摘要： A memory module is interposed between a host and a disk drive. The memory module includes a solid-state nonvolatile memory used for caching data sent by the host for storage in the disk drive. Caching takes place under the control of a memory controller in the memory module and may be transparent to the host. The disk drive may remain spun-down when data is cached, saving power. The destination for host data may be determined based on desired speed, power consumption and expected need for that data. A host may send specific commands to the memory module to enable additional functions.
摘要翻译：内存模块插在主机和磁盘驱动器之间。存储器模块包括用于缓存由主机发送以存储在磁盘驱动器中的数据的固态非易失性存储器。缓存在存储器模块中的存储器控制器的控制下进行，并且可能对主机是透明的。数据缓存时，磁盘驱动器可能保持静音，节省电力。可以基于期望的速度，功率消耗和对该数据的预期需要来确定主机数据的目的地。主机可以向存储器模块发送特定命令以启用附加功能。

30. 发明申请

US20090150601A1 Partial Block Data Programming And Reading Operations In A Non-Volatile Memory 有权
标题翻译：非易失性存储器中的部分块数据编程和读取操作
公开(公告)号：US20090150601A1
公开(公告)日：2009-06-11
申请号：US12371460
申请日：2009-02-13
申请人： Kevin M. Conley
发明人： Kevin M. Conley
IPC分类号： G06F12/02 , G06F12/00
CPC分类号： G11C16/102 , G06F12/0246 , G06F2212/1016 , G06F2212/1032 , G06F2212/7202 , G06F2212/7208 , G06F2212/7209 , G11C16/105 , G11C2216/16
摘要： Data in less than all of the pages of a non-volatile memory block are updated by programming the new data in unused pages of either the same or another block. In order to prevent having to copy unchanged pages of data into the new block, or to program flags into superceded pages of data, the pages of new data are identified by the same logical address as the pages of data which they superceded and a time stamp is added to note when each page was written. When reading the data, the most recent pages of data are used and the older superceded pages of data are ignored. This technique is also applied to metablocks that include one block from each of several different units of a memory array, by directing all page updates to a single unused block in one of the units.
摘要翻译：通过对相同或另一块的未使用页面中的新数据进行编程来更新少于非易失性存储器块的所有页面中的数据。为了防止不必要将不变的数据页复制到新的块中，或者将标记编程到被替换的数据页面中，新数据的页面被与它们所取代的数据页面相同的逻辑地址标识，并且时间戳当每个页面被写入时都会添加注释。当读取数据时，将使用最新的数据页面，并忽略较旧的旧版数据页面。通过将所有页面更新指向一个单元中的单个未使用的块，该技术也应用于包含来自存储器阵列的几个不同单元中的每一个的一个块的元区块。

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