Abstract: A method, device and system for determining whether a prior shut down of a device having a solid state non-volatile memory unit such as a flash memory unit resulted from a power loss and disorderly shut down and whether a power loss recovery procedure should be run.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for software recovery in a computing system are disclosed. Software installation is authorized, for example, by a user providing a password or a finger print or some other authorization mechanism. The software may then be installed to a flash memory drive. Write access to the flash memory drive is disabled upon completion of the software installation to the flash memory drive. The software is also installed to a system hard drive. If any files of the software installation become corrupted on the hard drive, the corrupted files may be restored from corresponding uncorrupted files of the software installation on the flash memory drive. Restoring the corrupted files may be accomplished by rebooting into a pre-boot BIOS mode and then authorizing the BIOS to remove the corrupted files and to replace them with a copy of the uncorrupted files from the flash memory drive.

Abstract: Various embodiments allow a non-volatile memory device to manage multiple process requests from an associated computing device. In at least some embodiments, a multi-threaded state machine is included in the supporting logic of the non-volatile memory device. Multiple process requests are received by the non-volatile memory device and serviced in a multi-threaded fashion.

Abstract: A method, device and system for determining whether a prior shut down of a device having a solid state non-volatile memory unit such as a flash memory unit resulted from a power loss and disorderly shut down and whether a power loss recovery procedure should be run.