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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:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Jochemsen, Eindhoven, NL;
Nicolaas Lambert, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for reducing fragmentation (both file fragmentation and free-space fragmentation) in digital storage devices ( ). In such a device in which a plurality of files is available for deletion the invention proposes selectively deleting the file that maximises defragmentation. The selection may optimise file and free-space defragmentation.