METHOD OF OPERATING DATA MEMORY AND DEVICE UTLIZING METHOD

• US 20180246646A1
• Filed: 09/05/2016
• Published: 08/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gurulogic Microsystems Oy
• Original Assignee: Gurulogic Microsystems Oy
• Inventors: KARKKAINEN, Tuomas, KALEVO, Ossi
• Granted Patent: US 10,303,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0238 Memory management in non-volatile memory, e.g. resistive RAM or ferroelectric memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0638 Organizing or formatting or addressing of data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0643 Management of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device

Abstract

A device includes a data memory managed by a filing system configured to store data in respect of one or more clusters or blocks within the data memory. The device (10) is configured to

• assemble data content objects into a virtual container;
• store the virtual container and associated data content objects into one or more of the one or more clusters or blocks, wherein the data content objects are memory-aligned within the one or more clusters or blocks; and
• arrange for the data content objects to be individually accessible in their virtual container.

Claims

1. A method of operating a data memory (40) of a device that is managed by a filing system (200) that is operable to store data (110) in respect of one or more clusters or blocks (100) within the data memory (40), wherein the method includes:

(a) assembling together a plurality of data content objects (110, 60) into a virtual container (150);

(b) storing the virtual container (150) and its associated data content objects (110, 60) into one or more of the one or more clusters or blocks (100), wherein the data content objects (110, 60) are memory-aligned within the one or more clusters or blocks, wherein cluster or block size is hierarchical such that the one or more clusters or blocks (100) include smaller clusters or blocks with room enough for one or more data content objects smaller than a pre-defined size of a cluster and larger clusters or blocks for data content objects larger than a pre-defined size of a cluster, wherein smaller and larger clusters or blocks are used to do suitable alignment to the data content objects (110,60) based on needs of the used filing system; and

selectively accessing an individual data content object from the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) in the virtual container (150) stored within the data memory (40);

wherein limits of the one or more clusters or blocks (100) are crossed by one data content object (110) of the one or more clusters or blocks if the size of that data content object (110) is larger than a cluster or a block whereat it is stored.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method includes selectively accessing the individual data content object from the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) having mutually different file formats.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein that the the method includes assembling together data content objects (110) smaller than a cluster and last blocks of data content objects (110) larger than a cluster within the one or more clusters or blocks (100).

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method includes transcoding one or more of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) when storing and/or accessing them from their virtual container (150) stored in the data memory (40).

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method includes compressing, encrypting, decompressing or decrypting one or more of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) when storing and/or accessing them from their virtual container (150) stored in the data memory (40).

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method includes arranging for at least one of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) to include a link to an external database relative to the data memory (40).

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of data content objects (100, 60) corresponds to data for generating one or more icons for presentation via a graphical user interface (GUI, 20).

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being executable by a computerized device comprising processing hardware to execute a method as claimed in claim 1.

8. A device (10) including a data memory (40) that is managed by a filing system (200) that is operable to store data (110) in respect of one or more clusters or blocks (100) within the data memory (40), characterized in that the device (10) is operable:

(a) to assemble together a plurality of data content objects (110, 60) into a virtual container (150);

(b) to store the virtual container (150) and its associated data content objects (110, 60) into one or more of the one or more clusters or blocks (100), wherein the data content objects (110, 60) are memory-aligned within the one or more clusters or blocks, wherein cluster or block size is hierarchical such that the one or more clusters or blocks (100) include smaller clusters or blocks with room enough for one or more data content objects smaller than a pre-defined size of a cluster and larger clusters or blocks for data content objects larger than a pre-defined size of a cluster, wherein smaller and larger clusters or blocks are used to do suitable alignment to the data content objects (110,60) based on needs of the used filing system; and

(c) to access selectively an individual data content object from the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) in the virtual container (150) stored within the data memory (40);

wherein limits of the one or more clusters or blocks (100) are crossed by one data content object (110) of the one or more clusters or blocks if the size of that content object (110) is larger than a cluster or a block whereat it is stored.

9. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device (10) is operable to to access selectively the individual data content object from the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) having mutually different file formats.

10. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device is configured to move together data content objects (110) smaller than a cluster and last blocks of data content objects (110) larger than a cluster within the one or more clusters or blocks (100).

11. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device (10) is configured to transcode one or more of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) when storing and/or accessing them from their virtual container (150) stored in the data memory (40).

12. A device (10) as claimed in claim 10, wherein the device (10) is configured to compress, encrypt, decompress or decrypt one or more of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) when storing and/or accessing them from their virtual container (150) stored in the data memory (40).

13. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device (10) is configured to arrange for at least one of the plurality of data content objects (110, 60) to include a link to an external database relative to the data memory (40).

14. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the plurality of data content objects (100, 60) corresponds to data for generating one or more icons for presentation via a graphical user interface (GUI, 20) of the device (10).

16. A device (10) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device (10) is a portable electronic device