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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2010
Aon Mujtaba, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haining Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Arjuna Sivasithambaresan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alex Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Arun Mathias, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen Schell, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Andrews, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Gosnell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dallas B. DE Atley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerry Hauck, Windermere, FL (US);
Aon Mujtaba, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haining Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Arjuna Sivasithambaresan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alex Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Arun Mathias, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen Schell, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Andrews, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Gosnell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dallas B. De Atley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerry Hauck, Windermere, FL (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect, a multifunctional computing device having a wireless communications processor (e.g., cellular processor) and an application processor (e.g., general-purpose processor such as a CPU) share a storage device that is associated with or attached to the application processor. An example of such a multifunctional computing device may be a Smartphone device having a cellular phone and handheld computer functionalities. There is no specific storage device directly associated with or attached to the wireless communications processor (hereinafter simply referred to as a wireless processor). Instead, the wireless processor communicates with the application processor via a high speed communications link, such as a USB link, to access code and data stored in the storage device (e.g., flash memory device) associated with the application processor.