Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium

Details Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium

2005-08-23

2005-08-23

Sparks, Donald (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S154000, C711S146000, C711S150000

Reexamination Certificate

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06934807

ABSTRACT:
Data is read in response to a request for a predetermined amount of data. The amount of data that has been read is determined prior to completing reading the predetermined amount of data. The predetermined amount of data may include prefetch data and demand data, where demand data is data for a computer program and prefetch data is data adjacent to the demand data.

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