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Secure garbage collection on a mobile device

  • US 10,210,081 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2016
  • Issued: 02/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for performing secure garbage collection involving unreferenced data objects on a computing device, the method comprising:

  • determining that a particular data object has become unreferenced; and

    in response to determining that the particular data object has become unreferenced;

    calling a wipe function to overwrite the addressable storage memory of the computing device where a first, second, and third data objects are stored, wherein the third data object is the particular data object, andreclaiming the addressable storage memory where the first, second, and third data objects were stored.

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