Electronic labeling for offline management of storage devices

Details Electronic labeling for offline management of storage devices Electronic labeling for offline management of storage devices

2004-10-13

2010-02-16

Vo, Tim T. (Department: 2168)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C710S033000, C711S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07664796

ABSTRACT:
A system and method using hardware and software components enable a storage module to maintain information about an associated storage device and its content such that the information is accessible when the storage device is offline or in a low power configuration. A general-computing host system connects to the storage module via a pluggable interface to provide information to a nonvolatile memory cache on the storage module. The storage module includes a separate power source, an output display, input buttons, and a module controller. The host system includes an application and host platform for processing file-system related events to send records to the module controller to automatically update a catalog representing storage device information in the nonvolatile memory. When offline, the user may display the catalog information and use the buttons to navigate among it. The host system may also allow the user to interactively review and modify the catalog.

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