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  • Patent number: 6263453
    Abstract: A system and method for preventing damage to media files within a digital camera comprise a power manager for detecting power failures, an interrupt handler for responsively incrementing a counter device and a removable memory driver for performing memory access operations, evaluating the counter device to determine whether a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation and for repeating the memory access operation whenever a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5935259
    Abstract: A system and method for preventing damage to media files within a digital camera comprises a power manager for detecting power failures, an interrupt handler for responsively incrementing a counter device and a removable memory driver for performing memory access operations, evaluating the counter device to determine whether a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation and for repeating the memory access operation whenever a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson
  • Patent number: RE41014
    Abstract: A system and method for preventing damage to media files within a digital camera comprise a power manager for detecting power failures, an interrupt handler for responsively incrementing a counter device and a removable memory driver for performing memory access operations, evaluating the counter device to determine whether a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation and for repeating the memory access operation whenever a power failure has occurred during the memory access operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson