US 11,720,624 B2
Storage device, electronic system including storage device, and control program for storage device
Tatsuo Shiozawa, Setagaya Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KIOXIA CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/111,866.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-053268 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0294704 A1, Sep. 26, 2019
Int. Cl. H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06F 16/38 (2019.01); H04W 12/047 (2021.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); H04W 12/77 (2021.01)
CPC G06F 16/58 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0601 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0637 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 16/381 (2019.01); H04W 12/047 (2021.01); H04W 12/77 (2021.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage device that is installable in an electronic apparatus, the storage device comprising:
a first communication interface for connecting the electronic apparatus to the storage device;
a nonvolatile memory for storing data and data management table storing a data size and address information for data stored in the nonvolatile memory; and
a processor configured to change at least one piece of data stored in the nonvolatile memory without changing file management information stored in the data management table for the at least one piece of data, the processor being configured to change the at least one piece of data without receiving an instruction from the electronic apparatus through the first communication interface, wherein
the file management information includes data size information for the at least one piece of data, and
the processor is configured to change the at least one piece of data each time power is supplied to the storage device from the electronic apparatus upon startup.