Texas Instruments Assigned Patent

Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,817,837) developed by Srinivas, Madan, Trivandrum, India, Raju, Veeramanikandan, and Munegowda, Keshava, Bangalore, India, for a “method and system for file storage and access.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed embodiments relate to storing and accessing files. In an embodiment, a method includes writing a file to a writing a file to a storage device having a file system having a file allocation table, (FAT). Writing the file includes allocating a plurality of clusters of the file system to the file, wherein at least a portion of the allocated clusters is contiguous. The FAT includes a plurality of cluster addresses corresponding to the allocated clusters. A signature value is stored in a cluster address corresponding to a first cluster of the contiguous clusters to indicate the presence of the contiguous clusters. In each of a set of consecutive cluster addresses succeeding the cluster address corresponding to the first cluster, a value that partially represents the number of the contiguous clusters is stored. The number of contiguous clusters is determinable by combining the values stored in the consecutive cluster addresses.”

The patent application was filed on January 23, 2017 (15/413,048)