Patent ID: 9032154
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of sending an application instruction from a hosting digital appliance to a detachable non-volatile memory system connected thereto, the non-volatile memory system including one or more non-volatile memory circuits and a controller circuit by which the application instruction is to be executed, wherein the application instruction is structured as one or more units whose size is a first number of bytes, the method comprising: flushing the contents of a cache on the hosting digital appliance; subsequently writing the application instruction to the cache on the hosting digital appliance, where the cache on the hosting digital appliance is structured as a plurality of logical blocks whose size is a second number of bytes, the second number being greater than the first number, the writing including: subsequently sending the application instruction from the cache on the hosting digital appliance to the non-volatile memory system.