Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-07
2006-02-07
Coby, Frantz (Department: 2161)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C711S006000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06996582
ABSTRACT:
Virtual storage systems and virtual storage system operational methods are described. According to one aspect, a virtual storage system includes a physical storage space configured to store data, a virtual storage space adapted to provide a representation of data stored within the physical storage space to a host, a memory configured to store a plurality of pointers utilized to implement addressing intermediate the physical storage space and the virtual storage space, and a controller configured to extract selected ones of the pointers from the memory and to provide the selected pointers in another storage location different than the memory at a first moment in time and to extract the selected pointers from the another storage location and to provide the selected pointers in the memory at a second moment in time subsequent to the first moment in time.
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Daniels Rodger
Nelson Lee L.
Coby Frantz
Filipczyk Marc R.
Hewlett--Packard Development Company, L.P.
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