Melodeo, Inc.

Michael E Sears

Robert E Novak

This disclosure deals with the management of data in the memory of a digital media playback device. Specifically this dislcosure deals with the mechanisms to allow memory to be treated as a partitioned resource, regardless of the physical implementation of the data storage in the playback device. Manage the memory on a digital media player as logical partitions, not just physical partitions between different types of memory. This will treat the entire memory space as a uniform piece of memory, regardless of whether the memory is internal memory with battery backup, Flash memory that behaves like a logical disk, rotating media that is read/write (typically magnetic disk or CD-RW or DVD-RW) or rotating media that is read only. Overlaid on this uniform memory model is a partitioned memory model that divides the memory into logical devices that are used to constrain the size of the memory used for various (logical) types of digital media.

System and methods for logical memory devices in a digital media player

The disclosure deals with the management of data in the memory of a digital media playback device. Specifically this invention deals with the mechanisms to allow memory to be treated as a uniform resource, regardless of the physical implementation of the data storage in the playback device. Manage the memory on a digital media player as logical partitions, not just physical partitions between different types of memory. This will treat the entire memory space as a uniform piece of memory, regardless of whether the memory is internal memory with battery backup, Flash memory that behaves like a logical disk, rotating media that is read/write (typically magnetic disk or CD-RW or DVD-RW) or rotating media that is read only.

Uniform memory management for personal devices with non-uniform memory systems

This disclosure deals with the management of recording programs from Radio Frequency transmissions converting such transmissions into alternative formats and managing the 'freshness' of content which is placed in the memory of a portable digital media playback device. Specifically this disclosure deals with the mechanisms to automate the memory management functions in a variety of ways that allow for two-way communication about content usage in the portable device.

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Michael E Sears