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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2003
Jozef Pieter Van Gassel, Eindhoven, NL;
Rudi Jozef Marie Wijnands, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Henricus Maria Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Jozef Pieter Van Gassel, Eindhoven, NL;
Rudi Jozef Marie Wijnands, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Henricus Maria Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method () of controlling memory usage in a portable streaming device (), a portable streaming device () and a computer readable medium (). The portable streaming device () comprises at least one memory (), at least one processing unit (), and at least one storage device () being operatively connected with said memory () under control of said processing unit (). The size of a disk scheduler buffer memory within said memory in said portable streaming device is adaptively maximised by said method () at all times. Free memory available within the portable streaming device is continuously allocated () and at least a portion of said allocated free memory is designated as disk scheduler buffer memory (). Thus results improved solid state memory utilisation of the portable streaming device, and due to larger available disk buffer memory size, less start-stop-cycles of the storage device are initiated, which leads to a longer life-cycle of said portable streaming device.