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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1997
Walter S Matthews, Folsom, CA (US);
Markus A Levy, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory management method is provided for a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of blocks each of which can be electrically erased and programmed. A data file to be stored in the nonvolatile memory is received. A number of blocks that are available for data storage are located from the plurality of blocks. The data file is stored in a first block of the number of blocks if the size of the data file is smaller than the total storage space of the first block. The data file is stored in the first block and a second block of the number of blocks if the size of the data file is larger than the total storage space of the first block but smaller than the total storage space of the first and second blocks. Unoccupied space of the first or second block by the data file is not used to store other data files such that no file reallocation operation is needed when the first or second block is to be erased. A data storage system having an erasable and programmable memory and a memory management program is also described.
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