Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Addressing, command protocol, and electrical interface for non-volatile memories utilized in recording usage counts
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Application No.: US14053566Application Date: 2013-10-14
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Publication No.: US09400764B2Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- Inventor: James Ronald Booth , Bryan Scott Willett
- Applicant: Lexmark International, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US KY Lexington
- Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US KY Lexington
- Main IPC: G06F13/42
- IPC: G06F13/42 ; G11C16/32 ; G11C7/10 ; G06F11/10

Abstract:
Electrical interfaces, addressing schemes, and command protocols allow for communications with memory modules in computing devices such as imaging and printing devices. Memory modules may be assigned an address through a set of discrete voltages. One, multiple, or all of the memory modules may be addressed with a single command, which may be an increment counter command, a write command, a punch out bit field, or a cryptographic command. The commands may be transmitted using a broadcast scheme or a split transaction scheme. The status of the memory modules may be determined by sampling a single signal that may be at a low, high, or intermediate voltage level.
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