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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
William J Krueger, Redmond, WA (US);
Sriram Rajagopalan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395616 ; 364D / ; 36422281 ;
Abstract
A method and system for managing memory in a block-erasable, flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory. The system comprises a block-erasable FEProm with a block header, a block allocation table, a data storage area, a block allocation routine for selecting a block in which to store data, a data area allocation routine for selecting an entry in the block allocation table and a portion of the data storage area, and a storage routine for storing the data. The system includes a file manager to implement a file system for the block-erasable FEProm.