Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Hierarchical memories
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-05
2006-09-05
Verbrugge, Kevin (Department: 2189)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Hierarchical memories
C711S113000, C711S203000, C711S213000, C709S216000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07103724
ABSTRACT:
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method to generate cache data is provided, wherein the method includes identifying access data transmitted from a storage device during execution of a predetermined software program and generating cache data using the identified access data.
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