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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:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2003
Applicants:
Jonathan T. Stern, Round Rock, TX (US);
Marc D. Alexander, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan T. Stern, Round Rock, TX (US);
Marc D. Alexander, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for reducing the amount of time for a boot operation is provided that includes a test management module that divides the memory into multiple test blocks and then selects a limited number of test blocks to test during a boot operation, thereby decreasing the overall amount of memory test time.