Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Geun-Sik Lim

Sang-bum Suh

Myung-June Jung

Chan-Ho Park

Ju-Pyung Lee

Chan-Ju Park

Myung-joo Ham

Dong-Yun Jin

Sang-Jin Yoon

Sang-Bae Lee

Gyung-Pyo Hong

Provided is a memory management method, and an apparatus to perform the method, which achieves a shortened user waiting time in consideration of system performance. The method includes acquiring a deallocation unit used to deallocate an allocated memory area according to at least one attribute, and deallocating the allocated memory area using the deallocation unit.

Apparatus and method for managing memory

A technique for reducing a size of a snapshot boot image by adjusting a structure of the snapshot boot image based on an analysis of a computing system. In addition, according to the technique, the overriding portions of a snapshot based boot image may be loaded first in consideration of a time of use of the system, and therefore a boot time can be reduced.

Apparatus and method for generating a boot image that is adjustable in size by selecting processes according to an optimization level to be written to the boot image

Provided is a method of booting a computing system which performs boot image transmission and device initialization in parallel. For example, using an Internal RAM and direct memory access (DMA), hardware initialization and loading of boot image from a main storage medium to a main memory are performed in parallel, thereby reducing time spent on booting.

Processor-implemented method for booting a computing system by simultaneously performing hardware initialization and boot image transmission

Provided are a booting apparatus and method using a snapshot image. A snapshot image may be divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks may be stored in a nonvolatile memory in a compressed or non-compressed format. The snapshot image may be incrementally loaded in units of the blocks during booting. The loading and decompression of the blocks may be performed in parallel.

Selectively compressing blocks of a bootable snapshot image during booting

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Geun-Sik Lim