Patent ID: 11868513
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for providing a digital fingerprint of a selected portion of a memory device to a host device, comprising:
a memory device;
a host device comprising a local memory separate from the memory device, the host device to execute a driver and a host application, wherein the host device is configured to perform operations comprising:
sending, by the host application and to the driver, a command to produce digital fingerprint data, the command including an output pointer to a memory location of the local memory for the digital fingerprint data to be written;
generating, by the driver, a modified command, wherein the modified command does not include the output pointer;
sending, by the driver, the modified command to the memory device;
receiving, by the driver, a reply comprising the digital fingerprint data describing a selected portion of the memory device; and
writing the digital fingerprint data to a location at the memory location of the local memory indicated by the output pointer.