Patent ID: 7185140
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for storing data in a nonvolatile memory which can be rewritten by a central processing unit, the method comprising the steps of: storing storage management information regarding the storage management of data to be stored in the nonvolatile memory, including information indicative of the beginning of the storing of the data in the nonvolatile memory and information indicative of the completion of the storing of the data in the nonvolatile memory, a unit of the data being smaller than an erase unit in the nonvolatile memory; storing storage completion information indicative of the completion of the storing of the storage management information in the nonvolatile memory; and judging, after a return from interruption of a process which occurred in the middle of the storage management information being stored, by referring to the storage completion information whether the storing of the storage management information is completed.