* Cited by examiner

Intels patents are a typical example of the industry, in general, trying to push typical legacy computing methods into flash.... in order to detail the data retained on flash memory compatible with typical computing.

For the patented processes listed, for the most part, they all revolve around this one particular patent.

US5581723 *Feb 19, 1993Dec 3, 1996 Intel Corporation Method and apparatus for retaining flash block structure data during erase operations in a flash EEPROM memory array

This is one of the big problems that e.Digital solved.....of having to use legacy ideas of structure data...or directive structures.

e.Digital does not manage by “ retaining flash block structure data”....and in the face of those Intel details during the prosecution of the application, the 108 patent was granted. The prior art of Intel was indifferent.

With that..........RE: 108…..”The device includes a port for receiving a flash memory module which can record data according to industry standard formats to enable the transfer of data to and from personal computers through swapping of flash memory media. “

A degree of portability that many will never understand…no matter how many times I state it.

You can bet your last dollar that Intel emphatically understands it. They ALL understand it.

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