Samsung patents smart device status reporting that saves bandwidth
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method where a secondary device reports its status to a main controller. The system checks internal status flags to decide whether to send a full or a shortened data packet, reducing the amount of data transmitted.
In the filing’s own words
Provided is a method of operating a slave device configured to communicate with a master device and to store a plurality of status flags corresponding to a plurality of device status records, respectively, the method including: receiving a first device status request from the master device; generating a first device status response, wherein based on a value of each status flag of the plurality of status flags, the first device status response includes either a first response type having a first packet capacity or a second response type having a second packet capacity smaller than the first packet capacity; and transmitting the first device status response to the master device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating a slave device configured to communicate with a master device and to store a plurality of status flags respectively corresponding to a plurality of device status records, the method comprising: receiving a first device status request from the master device; determining a packet capacity of a first device status response based on whether each status flag of the plurality of status flags has a first value; generating the first device status response in response to the first device status request; and transmitting the first device status response to the master device.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Slave device communicating with master device, and operation method thereof
- Patent number
- US12748710B2
- Application number
- 18737513
- Filed
- Jun 7, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 13/362 Physics & computingG06F 2213/0016 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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