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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131277 | ACTIVE MEMORY PROCESSOR SYSTEM In general, the present invention relates to data cache processing. Specifically, the present invention relates to a system that provides reconfigurable dynamic cache which varies the operation strategy of cache memory based on the demand from the applications originati... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131261 | SUB-BLOCK ACCESSIBLE NONVOLATILE MEMORY CACHE Subject matter disclosed herein relates to sub-block accessible cache memory.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131278 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHODS Data storage apparatus and methods are disclosed. A disclosed example data storage apparatus comprises a cache layer and a processor in communication with the cache layer. The processor is to dynamically enable or disable the cache layer via a cache layer enable line ba... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131276 | INFORMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An object is to efficiently set configurations of a storage apparatus. Provided is an information apparatus communicably coupled to a storage apparatus 10, which validates a script executed by the storage apparatus 10 for setting a configuration of the storage apparatus... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131284 | MULTI-CORE ACTIVE MEMORY PROCESSOR SYSTEM In general, the present invention relates to data cache processing. Specifically, the present invention relates to a system that provides reconfigurable dynamic cache which varies the operation strategy of cache memory based on the demand from the applications originati... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110111 | CACHE DEFEAT DETECTION AND CACHING OF CONTENT ADDRESSED BY IDENTIFIERS INTENDED TO DEFEAT CACHE Systems and methods for cache defeat detection are disclosed. Moreover, systems and methods for caching of content addressed by identifiers intended to defeat cache are further disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may b... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110258 | STORAGE DEVICE CACHE Implementations described and claimed herein provide a method and system for comparing a storage location related to a new write command on a storage device with storage locations of a predetermined number of write commands stored in a first table to determine frequency... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084498 | TRACKING WRITTEN ADDRESSES OF A SHARED MEMORY OF A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR Described embodiments provide a method of controlling processing flow in a network processor having one or more processing modules. A given one of the processing modules loads a script into a compute engine. The script includes instructions for the compute engine. The g... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072666 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPRISING TRACE LOGIC AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TRACE INFORMATION An integrated circuit comprises trace logic for operably coupling to at least one memory element and for providing trace information for a signal processing system. The trace logic comprises trigger detection logic for detecting at least one trace trigger, memory access... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072656 | MULTI-TIER CACHING A method for maintaining an index in multi-tier data structure includes providing a plurality of a storage devices forming the multi-tier data structure, caching an index of key-value pairs across the multi-tier data structure, wherein each of the key-value pairs includ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072665 | Caching of a Site Model in a Hierarchical Modeling System for Network Sites Disclosed are various embodiments for caching of a hierarchical model of a network site. Upon receiving a request to resolve a network site, a hierarchical site model associated with a network site is retrieved. A directory model associated with the network site is also... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054422 | Wide Input/Output Memory with Low Density, Low Latency and High Density, High Latency Blocks External memory having a high density, high latency memory block; and a low density, low latency memory block. The two memory blocks may be separately accessed by one or more processing functional units. The access may be a direct memory access, or by way of a bus or fa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054446 | IMPLEMENTING CACHE OFFLOADING A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system are provided for implementing a cache offloader. A current cache memory usage is compared with a memory threshold. Responsive to the current cache memory usage exceeding the memory threshold, cache reco... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054435 | STORING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT BYTES OF CHARACTERS AT NON-CONTIGUOUS ADDRESSES In an embodiment, an indicator is set to indicate that all of a plurality of most significant bytes of characters in a character array are zero. A first index and an input character are received. The input character comprises a first most significant byte and a first le... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A DIF ENABLED STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method for caching file data is disclosed. In one embodiment, in a method for caching file data stored in a storage device, wherein the file data is used by an application running on a computing system having a processor, a file system residing in memory, a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054445 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSERTING CACHE BLOCKS A method of inserting cache blocks into a cache queue includes detecting a first cache miss for the cache queue, identifying a storage block receiving an access in response to the cache miss, calculating a first estimated cache miss cost for a first storage container th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054443 | PARTIALLY SECTORED CACHE The present invention provides embodiments of a partially sectored cache. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a cache that includes a tag array for storing information indicating a plurality of tags and a data array for storing a plurality of lines. A first portion... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054438 | FAST ACCESSIBLE COMPRESSED THIN PROVISIONING VOLUME A computerized data storage system includes at least one storage device including a nonvolatile writable medium; a cache memory and a data management controller and a storage port. The storage port is operable to receive a request to read data, and, in response to the r... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054437 | INCREASING DATA ACCESS PERFORMANCE Techniques are described for increasing data access performance for a memory device. In various embodiments, a scheduler/controller is configured to manage data as it read to or written from a memory. Read access is increased by partitioning a memory into a group of sub... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047330 | I/O EFFICIENCY OF PERSISTENT CACHES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method are disclosed for improving the efficiency of a storage system. At least one application-oriented property is associated with data to be stored on a storage system. Based on the at least one application-oriented property, a manner of implementing at ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047328 | DATA DE-DUPLICATION FOR SERIAL-ACCESS STORAGE MEDIA Data storage and retrieval methods and apparatus are provided for facilitating data de-duplication for serial-access storage media such as tape. During data storage, input data is divided into a succession of chunks and, for each chunk, a corresponding data item is writ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN UPLOAD OF FILES IN A SHARED CACHE STORAGE SYSTEM Systems and methods for managing a storage device are disclosed. Generally, in a host to which a storage device is operatively coupled, wherein the storage device includes a cache for storing one or more discardable files, a file is identified to be uploaded to an exter... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042121 | Scatter-Gather Intelligent Memory Architecture For Unstructured Streaming Data On Multiprocessor Systems A scatter/gather technique optimizes unstructured streaming memory accesses, providing off-chip bandwidth efficiency by accessing only useful data at a fine granularity, and off-loading memory access overhead by supporting address calculation, data shuffling, and format... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042125 | Systems and Methods for Efficient Sequential Logging on Caching-Enabled Storage Devices A computer-implemented method for efficient sequential logging on caching-enabled storage devices may include 1) identifying a storage device with a cache, 2) allocating space on the storage device for a sequential log, 3) calculating a target size for the sequential lo... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036326 | EFFICIENTLY SYNCHRONIZING WITH SEPARATED DISK CACHES In a method of synchronizing with a separated disk cache, the separated cache is configured to transfer cache data to a staging area of a storage device. An atomic commit operation is utilized to instruct the storage device to atomically commit the cache data to a mappi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036325 | MEMORY COMPRESSION POLICIES Techniques are disclosed for managing memory within a virtualized system that includes a memory compression cache. Generally, the virtualized system may include a hypervisor configured to use a compression cache to temporarily store memory pages that have been compresse... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036324 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REVISITING PRIOR NAVIGATED PAGES AND PRIOR EDITS A system and method for navigating or editing may include storing multiple forward or redo stacks and a single back or undo stack. The forward or undo stacks may include separate stacks for each page from which navigation occurs to a page of lower hierarchical level or ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036347 | PROVIDING FAST NON-VOLATILE STORAGE IN A SECURE ENVIRONMENT In one embodiment, a peripheral controller coupled to a processor can include a storage controller. This storage controller can control access to a non-volatile storage coupled to the peripheral controller. The storage may include both secure and open partitions, and th... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036301 | PROCESSOR SUPPORT FOR FILLING MEMORY REGIONS Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing workloads between processors and/or processing elements. A computer system having at least first and second processing elements may cause a request to initialize one or more memory regions to be handled by the second pro... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036302 | DETERMINATION OF ONE OR MORE PARTITIONABLE ENDPOINTS AFFECTED BY AN I/O MESSAGE A data processing system includes a processor core, a system memory including a first data structure including a plurality of entries mapping requester identifiers (IDs) to partitionable endpoint (PE) numbers, and an input/output (I/O) subsystem including a plurality of... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036308 | SUPPORTING A SECURE READABLE MEMORY REGION FOR PRE-BOOT AND SECURE MODE OPERATIONS In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether an address map of a system includes support for a read only region of system memory, and if so configuring the region and storing protected data in the region. This data, at least some of... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030427 | Cache Control Method, Node Apparatus, Manager Apparatus, and Computer System Disclosed is a computer system that includes a first apparatus, which stores data and metadata in a storage, and multiple units of a second apparatus, which store a copy of data and metadata in the first apparatus in a cache. The first apparatus acquires throughput achi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023294 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING ON-BOARD PROCESSING LOGIC FOR FACILITATING INTERFACE WITH MULTIPLE PROCESSORS, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM USING SAME A memory device includes an on-board processing system that facilitates the ability of the memory device to interface with a plurality of processors operating in a parallel processing manner. The processing system includes circuitry that performs processing functions on... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017039 | CACHING USING VIRTUAL MEMORY In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for caching in a processor system having virtual memory is provided, the method comprising: monitoring slow memory in the processor system to determine frequently accessed pages; for a frequently accessed page in ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017045 | MULTI-RESOLUTION CACHE MONITORING Multi-resolution cache monitoring devices and methods are provided. Multi-resolution cache devices illustratively have a cache memory, an interface, an information unit, and a processing unit. The interface receives a request for data that may be included in the cache m... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017048 | INTER-FRAME TEXEL CACHE Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for caching. A cache memory area may be used for storing data from memory locations in an original memory area. The cache memory area may be used in conjunction with a repeatedly updated record of storage associated with t... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017050 | LOCAL CACHE PROVIDING FAST CHANNEL CHANGE Methods, systems, and apparatuses facilitate the processing of requests for media content, which can originate from a request by a user or device to change a channel. The media content for a subset of channels can be locally cached and fetched for quick retrieval.... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017047 | DATA VAULTING IN EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN A data storage apparatus includes a processor, a write cache in operable communication with the processor, an auxiliary storage device in operable communication with the write cache, and a temporary power source in electrical communication with each of the processor, wr... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017046 | UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE AND APPLICATION CONSISTENT SNAPSHOTS A storage management application of a storage array is operable to create a new volume on the storage device array, and to automatically configure, responsive to user selection of an application protection profile, data protection services for application data to be sto... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017041 | MANAGING EXTENDED RAID CACHES USING COUNTING BLOOM FILTERS Contentual metadata of an extended cache is stored within the extended cache. The contentual metadata of the extended cache is approximated utilizing a counting Bloom filter. The counting Bloom filter is stored within a primary cache. Contentual metadata of the primary ... | 01/19/2012 |
