IP Library Granted Patent US 11,057,456
Granted Patent B2
US 11,057,456 · App. 16/535,458 · Granted Jul 6, 2021

Memory system

Inventors: Yoshinari Kumaki (Yokohama Kanagawa, JP); Masaki Nakagawa (Sagamihara Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
H04L67/06G06F3/067G06F3/0619G06F3/0643G06F3/0683H04W8/005
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Patent No.
US 11,057,456
App. No.
16/535,458
Granted
Jul 6, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory system including a proximity wireless interface, a memory, and a controller. The proximity wireless interface can communicate with a correspondent device. In the memory, a file having an extension is stored. The controller specifies, if device information related to an attribution of the correspondent device is received in the proximity wireless interface from the correspondent device, at least one of an extension recognizable in the correspondent device and an extension unrecognizable therein based on the device information and that performs first transmission control according to a specified result. The first transmission control includes at least one of selectively transmitting a file having the recognizable extension from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device and not transmitting a file having the unrecognizable extension from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

Claims (32)

1. A memory system comprising:

a proximity wireless interface being capable of communicating with a correspondent device;

a memory; and

a controller configured to:

store a plurality of files to the memory, each of the files having an extension;

specify, if device information related to an attribution of the correspondent device is received in the proximity wireless interface from the correspondent device, an extension as recognizable in the correspondent device based on the device information and an extension as unrecognizable in the correspondent device based on the device information;

identify a non-transmitted file which is not transmitted to the correspondent device among the plurality of files based on time stamp information including time information of a last file transmitted to the correspondent device;

create a transmission list including the non-transmitted file having the recognizable extension among the stored files and not including a file having the unrecognizable extension among the stored files; and

transmit, according to the transmission list, the non-transmitted file via the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

2. The memory system according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured not to transmit the file having the unrecognizable extension among the stored files via the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

3. The memory system according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured to perform, if there is an instruction file describing a file to print among the plurality of files, transmission control to transmit the file, which is described in the instruction file, from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

4. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein if there is no instruction file, the controller does not perform the transmission control.

5. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein if there is the instruction file, the controller may perform the transmission control multiple times.

6. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein the controller, if there is no instruction file, is configured to transmit the non-transmitted file from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

7. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured to receive the instruction file from a host.

8. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein the proximity wireless interface includes a coupler configured to communicate by electromagnetically coupling to a coupler of the correspondent device.

9. The memory system according to claim 8 , wherein the coupler of the proximity wireless interface is configured to communicate by electromagnetically coupling to a coupler of the correspondent device when the correspondent device is in a predetermined proximity distance.

10. The memory system according to claim 3 , wherein the memory is a NAND-type flash memory.

11. A method of controlling a memory system including a proximity wireless interface and a memory, the proximity wireless interface being able to communicate with a correspondent device, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of files to the memory, each of the files having an extension;

specifying, if device information related to an attribution of the correspondent device is received in the proximity wireless interface from the correspondent device, an extension as recognizable in the correspondent device based on the device information and an extension as unrecognizable in the correspondent device based on the device information;

identifying a non-transmitted file which is not transmitted to the correspondent device among the plurality of files based on time stamp information including time information of a last file transmitted to the correspondent device;

creating a transmission list including the non-transmitted file having the recognizable extension among the stored files and not including a file having the unrecognizable extension among the stored files; and

transmitting, according to the transmission list, the non-transmitted file via the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

12. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising not transmitting the file having the unrecognizable extension among the stored files via the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

13. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising performing, if there is an instruction file describing a file to print among the plurality of files, transmission control to transmit the file, which is described in the instruction file, from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising not performing the transmission control, if there is no instruction file.

15. The method according to claim 13 , wherein if there is the instruction file, the performing the transmission control may be conducted multiple times.

16. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising transmitting, if there is no instruction file, the non-transmitted file from the proximity wireless interface to the correspondent device.

17. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the proximity wireless interface includes a coupler configured to communicate by electromagnetically coupling to a coupler of the correspondent device.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the coupler of the proximity wireless interface is configured to communicate by electromagnetically coupling to a coupler of the correspondent device when the correspondent device is in a predetermined proximity distance.

19. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the memory is a NAND-type flash memory.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Feb 4, 2022
From: K.K PANGEA
To: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058957/0124 →
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Jan 31, 2022
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
To: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058905/0582 →
MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2022
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
To: K.K PANGEA
Reel/Frame 058946/0675 →