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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, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven Morris, Crawley, GB;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reclaiming memory space allocated to data structures comprising data objects linked by identifying pointers. A repetitious cycle is performed including the following steps of traversing the data structures to identify and mark active data objects, deleting data objects that were marked as garbage during the previous cycle, marking data objects not marked as active as garbage, and executing the finalizer of any data object marked as garbage having a finalizer.