Mobile handset employing efficient backup and recovery of blocks during update
US7802129B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 17, 2007 |
| Grant date | Sep 21, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1068
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A fault tolerant method of updating software and firmware in non-volatile memory in electronic devices such as, for example, cellular phones, personal digital assistants, pagers and the like, which supports efficient recovery of corrupted memory contents when interruption of updating activities occurs, and that minimizes writes to the non-volatile memory.
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