Prior Art submitted for Method and system for file system management using a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory

File Access System--International Business Machines Corporation

Sun, 03 May 2009 17:37:35 +0000

Patent/Application #: 3,668,647
Description: The 1972 IBM patent demonstrates that the Background section of Microsoft's patent was not entirely true when it claimed that file systems store data from only one file in any given block at a time.

Commercial product HP 95LX released in 1991 running DOS with a flash drive FAT system

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:06:43 +0000

Title: 95LX Users Guide, 95LX Palmtop PC with Lotus123
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Description: Personal Digital Assistant running DOS with PCMCIA Flash drive data storage in 1991. Drive A: was the removable RAM drive with battery backup making it static memory. The drivers and format executables are in sundrv.zip attached. see: http://www.daniel-hertrich.de/95lx/ http://www.daniel-hertrich.de/95lx/#storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX

Commercial product March 1991 CDTV

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:46:04 +0000

Title: CDTV Information
Description: Commercial product March 1991 CDTV had built in PCMCIA like card slot and was treated as an extension to the file system

The Cambridge Z88 Computer

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:58:31 +0000

Name/Title: The "OZ" operating system
System Type: Operating System
Description: The Cambridge Z88 (sometimes referred to as the Cambridge Computer Z88, or Sinclair Z88), developed by Sir Clive Sinclair, was a forerunner to today's netbook computers. It had no hard drive, but used removable EPROM modules for its file system storage. From the user's perspective these modules behaved, via the operating system, like a hard drive or PC file system. The Z88 was available to the public in 1987.

General Electric DMC/EEPROM

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:25:34 +0000

Name/Title:
System Type: Firmware
Description: General Electric, Salem Virginia, shipped a product called DMC, (Distributed Micro Controller) from 1980-1990 as part of their control systems. Application software in the form of Relay Ladder Logic (and ASM86 modules) was developed under VAX/VMS, using in house programming tools, and downloaded to target DMCs, where it was stored in EEPROM memory. By 1992 DMCs were obsolete and replaced by GE's next generation platform. GE has exceptionally long support for spare parts etc. so it should be possible to obtain more information/documentation from them. HMHA is a generic memory board that can be populated with RAM or EEPROM memory chips. The board populated with EEPROM chips I believe has a designation of EEPA perhaps with a DS3800 prefix. I could also probably locate schematic drawings of this board at one of my client's sites. I would also be willing to make a statement about my knowledge of this item. Hope this is relevant. Rick rjafrate@gmail.com

J. W. J. Williams, Algorithm 232 Heapsort, CACM, 7(6):378-348, June 1964.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:11:56 +0000

Title: Robert W. Floyd. Algorithm 245 - Treesort 3, 1964, Communications of the ACM 7(12): 701.
ISBN: 0001-0782
Description: They are describing a heap data structure. J. W. J. Williams. Algorithm 232 - Heapsort, 1964, Communications of the ACM 7(6): 347–348. Robert W. Floyd. Algorithm 245 - Treesort 3, 1964, Communications of the ACM 7(12): 701.

Nokia 9110 Communicator

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:23:34 +0000

Title: User’s manual Nokia Communicator 9110
Description: The nokia communicator did have a flash file system and according to wikipedia was able to store data on MMCs.

Flash EEPROM memory emulator of non-flash EEPROM device and corresponding method

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:44:18 +0000

Patent/Application #: 6904400
Description: US Patent 6904400 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6904400.html Seem to cover many of the claims.

PSION'S FAMILY OF A4-SIZE MOBILE COMPUTERS LOOKS TO BE WELL WORTH THE WAIT

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:26:27 +0000

Title: PSION'S FAMILY OF A4-SIZE MOBILE COMPUTERS LOOKS TO BE WELL WORTH THE WAIT
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Description: Article that anticipates a system that interfaces with the file allocation table system and allows flash devices to perform block erasures.

The LFS Storage Manager

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:23:17 +0000

Title: The LFS Storage Manager
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Description: Article from the Computer Science Department at University of California Berkeley

The Drive to the Year 2000

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:20:13 +0000

Title: The Drive to the Year 2000
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Description: Article from IEEE Micro

Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:17:37 +0000

Title: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
ISBN:
Description: Article from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

New Products

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Title: Computer
ISBN:
Description: Article from Computer.