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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2010
Applicants:

Masahiko Adachi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Hiroyasu Nishiyama, Kawasaki, JP;

Motoki Obata, Toda, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiko Adachi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Hiroyasu Nishiyama, Kawasaki, JP;

Motoki Obata, Toda, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 17/30085 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract

It is provided a memory management method for releasing an unnecessary area in a memory area used by a program stored in the memory and executed by the computing device. The memory management method including the step of: setting in the memory, a first memory area which is used to execute the program; setting in the memory, a second memory area which can be operated by the program; setting a utilized area in the second memory area based on an instruction from the program; storing objects including data in the utilized area of the second memory area based on an instruction from the program; determining whether the program uses the objects stored in the utilized area within the second memory area; and releasing, by the computing device, the utilized area occupied by an object that is not used by the program among the objects stored in the utilized area.


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