Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080098157
Filing Date: October 23, 2006
Inventors: J. Michael Andrewartha, James Hess, David Maciorowski, Edward A. Cross
Assignee(s): HP
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/103000
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A memory system according to Claim 1, wherein the block-accessible memory is larger than the random access memory that is written to the block-accessible memory, and wherein the logic arranged to write is arranged to write from the random access memory to vacant blocks of the block-accessible memory and to write to the block-accessible memory metadata enabling the most recently written copy of a part of the random access memory to be identified.
#212Memory Mapped files
Applies to Claims 1,10,11,12,13,2,3,4,5,6,7
Submitted by: Tony FarrellLast updated: over 3 years ago
Title Managing Memory-Mapped Files in Win32
Description
Techniques for using Non-Volatile storage to back up volatile storage of existed for a long time - currently known as Memory Mapped files. This details documentation example is from the documentation for Microsoft Windows - but the technique has been available from about 1978 (In the VAX/VMS operating system)
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Patent/Application # 7,360,039
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Patent on arrnagement and methods for the management of data in blocks of non volatile memory
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