EP 1784708 A1 20070516 - METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR BUFFERING A STREAM OF DATA
Title (en)
METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR BUFFERING A STREAM OF DATA
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND SCHALTUNG ZUM PUFFERN EINES DATENSTROMS
Title (fr)
PROCEDE ET CIRCUIT DESTINES A LA MISE EN TAMPON D'UN TRAIN DE DONNEES
Publication
Application
Priority
- IB 2005051982 W 20050615
- EP 04103031 A 20040629
- EP 05748051 A 20050615
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2006003539A1] Energy still is a precious commodity for portable consumer devices. In such devices, data is usually read from a mass storage device like a harddisk, buffered in a solid state memory and then rendered (processed) for reproduction over usually headphones (and a screen when applicable). The invention is aimed at more efficient use of the buffer memory, which is usually divided in compartments. The invention is based on the recognition that individual compartments of a (e.g.) dynamic buffer memory should be emptied as fast as possible as compared to gradually reading data from various compartments of the memory. In this way, considerable amounts of energy can be saved as an inactive memory compartment consumes less power than an active memory compartment.
IPC 8 full level
G06F 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR)
G06F 1/32 (2013.01 - KR); G06F 1/3225 (2013.01 - EP); G06F 12/00 (2013.01 - KR); G11B 20/10527 (2013.01 - EP); G11B 2020/1062 (2013.01 - EP)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 2006003539A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2006003539 A1 20060112; CN 1977233 A 20070606; EP 1784708 A1 20070516; JP 2008504641 A 20080214; KR 20070027626 A 20070309; TW 200622574 A 20060701
DOCDB simple family (application)
IB 2005051982 W 20050615; CN 200580022083 A 20050615; EP 05748051 A 20050615; JP 2007518745 A 20050615; KR 20067027403 A 20061227; TW 94121325 A 20050624