"from the little I know, doesn't the patents cover embedded nonvolatile memory as well."

I may have gotten a little off on a tangent there,sorry.....Basically of what I wrote, it's the principles involved incorporating the working memory process they will be looking at. How it relates to a firmware set and the OS to be emulated.

They will cover, IMO, any linear or sreialized anaomity.....no matter what the media type, be it optical, electrical, magnatic....etc

doni