| CPC G06F 11/0772 (2013.01) [G06F 11/0781 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A method of processing exception events for a storage device, the method comprising:
generating, by the storage device, a first exception event alert comprising a first value and a second value, wherein the first value indicates generation of exception events and the second value indicates attributes of the exception events;
transmitting, from the storage device, the first exception event alert to a host device;
determining, by the host device, that the first exception event alert indicates an abnormality of the storage device; and
based on determining that the first exception event alert indicates the abnormality of the storage device, identifying, by the host device, a type of exception event corresponding to the first exception event alert based on the second value and performing an exception processing routine based on the identified type of exception event.
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