Patents by Inventor Tsung-Pao NIEN

Tsung-Pao NIEN 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).

  • METHOD FOR OPERATING NON-VOLATILE FLASH MEMORY WITH WRITE PROTECTION MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20110246704
    Abstract: A method for operating a non-volatile flash memory with a write protection mechanism is provided. The method comprises the steps as follow. A command is issued. When the command is a safeguard information modification command, only when the safeguard information modification command matches the specific combination of the plurality of modification instructions, a safeguard information is allowed to be modified. When the command is a flash memory data modification command, only when both the status register protection information and the safeguard information indicate that the memory block/sector is not under write-protection, the memory block/sector is allowed to be modified according to the flash memory data modification command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CHINGIS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Pao NIEN, Ming-Te CHOU, Jian-Hui XIE