Patent ID: 11947839
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A storage system comprising:
one or more processing circuits; and
a storage device communicably connected to the one or more processing circuits, and comprising:
protected memory comprising one or more log pages;
non-volatile memory; and
a storage controller configured to:
receive a data request command over a host interface to access the non-volatile memory, the data request command including data associated with the data request command, first metadata, and second metadata;
identify the second metadata included with the data request command;
based on a configuration received over a first interface different from the host interface, log the second metadata in the one or more log pages;
receive a separate command over the first interface from a requestor from among the one or more processing circuits; and
retrieve the second metadata from the one or more log pages in response to the separate command,

wherein the first metadata is associated with the data, and processed according to the data request command, and
wherein the second metadata is user-defined metadata included with the data request command, is separately stored from the data and the first metadata, and is processed according to the separate command.