Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition
Reexamination Certificate
2010-10-14
2011-11-22
Lane, John (Department: 2185)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Specific memory composition
C711S135000, C711S141000, C711S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08065480
ABSTRACT:
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 mapping scheme of the storage device.
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Ergan Cenk
Fortin Michael R.
Panabaker Ruston
Lane John
Microsoft Corporation
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