Patent ID: 11960415
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A Universal Flash Storage (UFS) device comprising:
a transmitter configured to transmit first data to another UFS device;
a receiver configured to receive second data from the other UFS device; and
a lane controller configured to:
set at least one lane from among a plurality of lanes connecting the UFS device to the other UFS device to an active state, and the other lanes from among the plurality of lanes to a power save state, based on determining that a data request is not directly received from an application layer of the UFS device; and
set the plurality of lanes to the active state, based on determining that the data request is received from the application layer of the UFS device,

wherein the UFS device further comprises a transmitter buffer, and
wherein the lane controller is configured to set the at least one lane from among the plurality lanes to the active state, based on determining that the transmitter buffer does not have a data traffic coming from the application layer.