Realtek Semiconductor Assigned Patent

Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,025,598) developed by Chen, Cheng-Yu, and Lin, Wang-Sheng, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “storage device, booting procedure acceleration method and storage controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure provides a storage device for accelerating a booting procedure. The storage device includes a non-volatile storage medium, a volatile cache memory and a storage controller. The non-volatile storage medium stores booting data and is configured to output the booting data according to a read instruction. The storage controller is configured to store the booting data to the volatile cache memory by executing the following steps: reading a booting data table including non-physical addresses of the booting data, generating a read instruction according to the booting data table, in which the read instruction indicates the physical addresses of the booting data in the non-volatile storage medium, storing the booting data from the non-volatile storage medium to the volatile cache memory, and associating the non-physical addresses of the booting data with the cache addresses of the booting data in the volatile cache memory.”

The patent application was filed on July 22, 2016 (15/217,831).