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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1997
G. Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Craig G. Eisler, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A memory monitor automatically restores the state of physical memory allocation of application programs when they lose and then regain the focus in a multitasking computing environment. The memory monitor monitors the focus of the operating system for changes, such as when the user switches from one application to another. When an application loses the focus, the memory monitor determines and stores the state of physical memory allocation. When the memory monitor detects that the application has re-gained the focus, it re-loads all of the code or data that was in physical memory when the application lost the focus, but had been swapped to secondary storage.