Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Use of volatile memory as non-volatile memory
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Application No.: US15004830Application Date: 2016-01-22
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Publication No.: US09746895B2Publication Date: 2017-08-29
- Inventor: Bryan Kelly , Mark Santaniello , Sriram Govindan , Anirudh Badam
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler
- Main IPC: G06F1/28
- IPC: G06F1/28 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
A computing device may comprise a processor, a volatile memory and a non-volatile storage device. An operating system or firmware of the device may cause one or more pages of the volatile memory to be treated, by applications executing on the computing device, as non-volatile memory pages. A maximum number of pages that may be treated as non-volatile may be determined based on an amount of energy available in a battery and an amount of energy needed to transfer a page of memory to the non-volatile storage device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170212573A1 USE OF VOLATILE MEMORY AS NON-VOLATILE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2017-07-27
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