Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Memory configuring
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-22
2010-10-05
Tsai, Sheng-Jen (Department: 2186)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Memory configuring
C711SE12002
Reexamination Certificate
active
07809918
ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for providing memory management functions are provided. According to one method, a memory allocation process is exposed that receives a requested memory size with a memory allocation request and returns a pointer to an area of allocated memory of the requested memory size if available. A memory deallocation process is also exposed that receives requests to deallocate previously allocated memory regions in the form of a pointer to the memory region to be deallocated. The allocation and deallocation processes maintain a list of linked lists, each of the linked lists describing an unallocated portion of the memory. Only a single linked list must be updated by the allocation process. The deallocation process adds a new linked list and rebuilds the list of linked lists to merge any linked lists corresponding to adjacent portions of memory.
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American Megatrends Inc.
Chrzanowski Matthew R
Hope Baldauff Hartman LLC
Tsai Sheng-Jen
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