Patents by Inventor Joshua Boyer

Joshua Boyer 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).

  • Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces
    Publication number: 20050138347
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable non-volatile memory references, creating a temporary, volatile-memory file system for allocation of volatile memory space as needed for the non-volatile memory update process, copying all procedural code required to perform the non-volatile memory update into the volatile memory, changing the system search path definitions temporarily to point to the volatile memory, and performing the non-volatile memory update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Frank Haverkamp, Gerald Kreissig, Joshua Boyer, Shaun Wetzstein