System and method for updating devices that execute an operating system or application program directly from nonvolatile storage
US7996501B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 16, 2007 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 20, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/65
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method updates a device by storing into nondisk nonvolatile storage such as flash memory, the files used to update the device, using data structures that are swapped, a portion at a time, into available RAM of the device.
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