System and method for notifying a host of a service required...

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2011-08-09

2011-08-09

Lee, Chun-Kuan (Department: 2181)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral monitoring

C710S014000, C710S016000, C710S017000, C710S018000, C710S019000, C710S048000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07996580

ABSTRACT:
A host device includes an electrical activity monitoring (EAM) module that is configured to monitor the electrical activity of a slave storage device interfaced with the host device. Responsive to the value of, or change in, the electric current fed to the slave storage device being at or near a certain level, or within a predetermined range, the EAM module notifies the host device that the slave storage device has pending service request(s) or information for the host device.

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