System, method, and computer program product for nonvolatile memory devices

• US 20060288166A1
• Filed: 11/21/2005
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wanderback LLC
• Original Assignee: Wanderback LLC
• Inventors: Smith, William R. Jr., Kieley, Daniel F.
• Application Number:
  US11/285,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20060288166A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4239 with asynchronous protocol

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product for nonvolatile memory devices. One implementation includes a method for managing data in a nonvolatile memory device, comprising attaching a removable nonvolatile memory device to a host system; activating the nonvolatile memory device by the host system; in response to activating, contacting a server system over a network at an address stored on the nonvolatile memory device; receiving data from the server system; and storing the data on the nonvolatile memory device.

Claims

1. A method for managing data in a nonvolatile memory device, comprising:

attaching a removable nonvolatile memory device to a host system;

activating the nonvolatile memory device by the host system;

in response to activating, contacting a server system over a network at an address stored on the nonvolatile memory device;

receiving data from the server system; and

storing the data on the nonvolatile memory device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the contacting, receiving, and storing are all performed automatically when the nonvolatile memory device is activated.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the activation automatically performed in response to the attaching.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the contacting, receiving, and storing are all performed according to a computer program stored on the nonvolatile memory device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the address and the data are stored in a reserved memory area of the nonvolatile memory device that is inaccessible to a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the nonvolatile memory device includes a unique identifier that is used by the server system to determine the data to be received and stored on the nonvolatile memory device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes at least one of multimedia content, financial data, and a software program update.

8. A removable nonvolatile memory device, comprising:

a user memory area accessible to a user of a host system when the nonvolatile memory device is attached to and activated by the host system; and

a reserved memory area storing encoded data not directly accessible to the user,

the encoded data including a computer program product configured to, in response to attached to and activated by the host system, contact a server system over a network at an address stored on the nonvolatile memory device,

receive downloaded data from the server system, and

store the downloaded data on the nonvolatile memory device.

9. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein the contacting, receiving, and storing are all performed automatically when the nonvolatile memory device is activated.

10. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein the activation is automatically performed in response to the attaching.

11. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein at least some of the downloaded data is stored in the user memory area.

12. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein the address and the downloaded data are stored in the reserved memory area.

13. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein the encoded data further includes a unique identifier that is used by the server system to determine the data to be received and stored on the nonvolatile memory device.

14. The removable nonvolatile memory device of claim 8, wherein the downloaded data includes at least one of multimedia content, financial data, and a software program update.

15. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable medium, comprising:

instructions for contacting a server system over a network at an address stored on a removable nonvolatile memory device, in response to detecting that a removable nonvolatile memory device has been attached to and activated by a host system;

instructions for receiving downloaded data from the server system; and

instructions for storing the downloaded data on the nonvolatile memory device.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the instructions for contacting, receiving, and storing are all executed automatically when the nonvolatile memory device is activated.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein at least some of the downloaded data is stored in a user memory area of the nonvolatile memory device.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the address and the downloaded data are stored in a reserved memory area of the nonvolatile memory device.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising instructions to read a unique identifier from the nonvolatile memory device and instructions to transmit the unique identifier to the server system.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the downloaded data includes at least one of multimedia content, financial data, and a software program update.