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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Robert E. Novak, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael E. Sears, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert E. Novak, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael E. Sears, Los Altos, CA (US);
Melodeo, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure deals with the management of data in the memory of a digital media playback device. Specifically this invention deals with the mechanisms to allow memory to be treated as a uniform resource, regardless of the physical implementation of the data storage in the playback device. Manage the memory on a digital media player as logical partitions, not just physical partitions between different types of memory. This will treat the entire memory space as a uniform piece of memory, regardless of whether the memory is internal memory with battery backup, Flash memory that behaves like a logical disk, rotating media that is read/write (typically magnetic disk or CD-RW or DVD-RW) or rotating media that is read only.