Patents by Inventor Nathan Rapaport

Nathan Rapaport has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Portable memory device with multiple I/O interfaces wherein each I/O interface has respective protocol and device parameters are requested from one I/O interface using only respective protocol
    Patent number: 8001304
    Abstract: A non-volatile storage device has first and second controllers that provide external access to non-volatile memory using different protocols. In response to a request from the first controller, the second controller retrieves parameters from the non-volatile memory and provides the retrieved parameters to the first controller. In one embodiment, the device parameters are USB descriptors, which may include a vendor ID, a product ID, a product string, and/or a serial number. The first controller may be a Universal Serial Bus (USB) card reader controller. Examples of the second controller include a Secure Digital (SD) controller, a CompactFlash (CF) controller, a MemoryStick controller, or a different type of controller that is able to provide external access to the non-volatile memory. The first controller provides the device parameters to a host during enumeration of the non-volatile storage device. The device parameters may be used to establish settings for the first controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Ka Ian Yung, Steven Sprouse, Dhaval Parikh, Nathan Rapaport
  • PROVIDING DEVICE PARAMETERS
    Publication number: 20090210637
    Abstract: A non-volatile storage device has first and second controllers that provide external access to non-volatile memory using different protocols. In response to a request from the first controller, the second controller retrieves parameters from the non-volatile memory and provides the retrieved parameters to the first controller. In one embodiment, the device parameters are USB descriptors, which may include a vendor ID, a product ID, a product string, and/or a serial number. The first controller may be a Universal Serial Bus (USB) card reader controller. Examples of the second controller include a Secure Digital (SD) controller, a CompactFlash (CF) controller, a MemoryStick controller, or a different type of controller that is able to provide external access to the non-volatile memory. The first controller provides the device parameters to a host during enumeration of the non-volatile storage device. The device parameters may be used to establish settings for the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Ka Ian Yung, Steven Sprouse, Dhaval Parikh, Nathan Rapaport