Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Paul Garbers

Jeffrey Paul Garbers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for storing items in flash memory
    Patent number: 5748537
    Abstract: An electronic device (100) stores an item (135) including bits of information. The electronic device (100) includes a flash memory (125) that stores the item (135) in binary form and a flash manager (120) that receives a modified item to be stored in the same location as the item (135). The flash manager (120) determines whether replacing the item (135) with the modified item involves any bit transitions from zero to one. When no bit transitions from zero to one are involved, the flash manager (120) changes selected bits from one to zero to replace the item (135) with the modified item in place, without copying any stored information to a different memory location, such as a different region of the flash memory or a different memory device (115).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Inventors: Jeffrey Paul Garbers, Dennis Drew Moseley