Patent ID: 11899945
Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the device-side compatibility management procedure comprises:
performing at least one checking operation according to the first command to generate at least one checking result of the at least one checking operation, for determining the detection result, wherein the detection result indicates whether the host device conforms to a first version of the multiple predetermined versions of the predetermined communications specification;
in response to the detection result indicating that the host device conforms to the first version of the multiple predetermined versions of the predetermined communications specification, configuring a target firmware version of the memory device to be a first firmware version associated with the first version of the multiple predetermined versions of the predetermined communications specification; and
updating the configuration of the target firmware version of the memory device into at least one predetermined block among a plurality of blocks in the NV memory, to allow the memory device to be compatible with the host device.