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System using the storage level of file updates in nonvolatile memory to trigger saving of RAM to disk and using the file updates to reboot after crash

US5241672A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 1, 1991
Grant dateAug 31, 1993
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Expiry dateApr 1, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99953
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic printing system with plural hard disks for storing system files in which file management information is held in a Volume Allocation Table in internal system RAM memory with file management updates queued in NVM, with the contents of the Volume Allocation Table transferred to external disk memory when the queue of file management updates in NVM reaches a predetermined size.

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