Patent ID: 11922061
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving a first command at a memory device from a host device, the first command associated with host-device refresh-timing information, the host-device refresh-timing information indicating at least a first amount of time that remains before the host device is scheduled to issue a second command to direct the memory device to perform a next refresh operation;
determining at the memory device a self-refresh schedule based at least in part on the host-device refresh-timing information;
determining, at the memory device, memory-device refresh-timing information based at least in part on the self-refresh schedule, the memory-device refresh-timing information indicating at least a second amount of time that remains before the memory device is scheduled to undergo a next self-refresh operation; and
transmitting the memory-device refresh-timing information to the host device in response to a third command.