Invention Application
- Patent Title: Addressing, command protocol, and electrical interface for non-volatile memories utilized in recording usage counts
- Patent Title (中): 用于记录使用次数的非易失性存储器的寻址,命令协议和电接口
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Application No.: US11406542Application Date: 2006-04-19
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Publication No.: US20070250659A1Publication Date: 2007-10-25
- Inventor: James Booth , Bryan Willett
- Applicant: James Booth , Bryan Willett
- Assignee: Lexmark International Inc.
- Current Assignee: Lexmark International Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

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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