Patent ID: 11868271
Assignee: ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES AB
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. The method for accessing compressed computer memory as defined in claim 11, further comprising:
decompressing compressed sector data as retrieved from the compressed computer memory in response to the sector request;
providing the decompressed sector data to the selector unit and the sector merge unit;
handling said read request by:
obtaining data from the decompressed sector data using the address and size of said physical memory access request, and
returning the obtained data to the source of said physical memory access request; and

handling said write request by:
obtaining data from the decompressed sector data using the address and size of said physical memory access request,
merging the obtained data with data in said physical memory access request into new uncompressed sector data,
compressing the new uncompressed sector data, and
storing it as said compressed sector data in the compressed computer memory.