Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Emily Nicole Hill

William Jefferson Westerinen

Cenk Ergan

Michael Richard Fortin

Michael James Zwilling

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla

Nathan Steven Obr

John M Parchem

Clark David Nicholson

Patrick L Stemen

Rajeev Y Nagar

Therron Powell

Dean L DeWhitt

Surenda Verma

Dan Teodosiu

Robin Andrew Alexander

Henry Gabryjelski

Oren Rosenbloom

James Bovee

Narasimhan Ramasubramanian

Daniel Teodosiu

Dean L Dewhitt

In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are provided for controlling the use of the non-volatile memory as a write buffer and a read cache. Additionally, a portion of the non-volatile memory is used to provide a direct mapping for specified sectors of the long-term storage media. Descriptive data regarding the persistent storage device is stored in another portion of the non-volatile memory.

Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement

A system is disclosed for centralized management of access permissions to unique class identifier devices on client terminals using a group policy framework. The system includes a first aspect whereby administrative templates related to the unique class identifier devices are used to configure a user interface allowing an IT administrator or other to set access permissions for the unique class identifier devices. The system further includes a second aspect for implementing the access permissions to the unique class identifier devices on the client terminals.

Group policy for unique class identifier devices

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Emily Nicole Hill