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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew D. Myrick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lionel D. Desai, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph Sokol, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 2212/401 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, when a secondary application on an electronic device is selected for deactivation, the memory associated with the application can be gathered, compacted and compressed into a memory freezer file. The memory freezer file can be stored in non-volatile memory with a reduced storage footprint compared to a memory stored in a conventional swap file. When the selected application is to be reactivated, the compressed memory in the memory freezer file can be quickly restored to process memory.