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App. No. 12/787,538

DISPLAY CONFIGURED TO DISPLAY HEALTH STATUS OF A MEMORY DEVICE

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App. No.
12/787,538
Abstract

An apparatus includes a display configured to display a health status of a memory device, where the health status is indicative of an amount of spare memory the memory device has available to replace memory of the memory device that may become defective.

Claims (29)

1 . An apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a health status of a memory device;

wherein the health status is indicative of an amount of spare memory the memory device has available to replace memory of the memory device that may become defective.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is a monitor.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the memory device can store information when the health status is zero.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is configured to display a warning when the amount of spare memory the memory device has available to replace memory of the memory device that may become defective is zero.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is non-volatile.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display comprises a plurality of different colored LEDs, where each color signifies a different value of the health status.

7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display comprises a plurality of LEDs, wherein a number of LEDs illuminated indicates a respective value of the health status.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display comprises a single, multi-colored LED, where each color indicates a different value of the health status.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the health status is displayed in bar fashion.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a value of the health status is displayed using rectangular shapes.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display comprises an indicator that points increasingly toward a particular value of the health status as the health status deteriorates.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the health status is a measure of a health of the memory regardless of an amount of memory of the memory device that is defective at a time of manufacture of the memory device.

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is on the memory device.

14 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is a window on the memory device.

15 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display is coupled to a host.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the host measures the health status.

17 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the health status is a percentage.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the health status is a ratio.

19 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a controller coupled to the memory device measures the health status.

20 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the memory device measures the health status.

21 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the memory device is a memory card.

22 . An apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a health status of a memory device;

wherein the health status only accounts for a growing number of defects of a memory of the memory device.

23 . An apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a health status of a memory device;

wherein the health status depends upon a number of memory blocks of the memory device that become defective after the memory device is manufactured.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Mar 25, 2011
From: LEXAR MEDIA, INC.
To: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
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