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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2005
Shao-chun Chen, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
James P. Gustafson, Irvine, CA (US);
Toni Pakarinen, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Shao-Chun Chen, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
James P. Gustafson, Irvine, CA (US);
Toni Pakarinen, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A mobile electronic device with NOR and/or NAND flash memory may be updated using an update agent able to perform fault tolerant updates. The efficiency of an update of the memory of the device may be significantly improved by employing memory management information provided by a generator used to produce update information for updating the memory. Erasures and writes to blocks of flash memory may be reduced by mapping a logical block layout to a physical block layout that helps avoid moves of memory blocks to be updated. Fault tolerance of the update process is maintained.