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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2018
Applicant:

Storageos Limited, London, GB;

Inventor:

Alex Chircop, Buckinghamshire, GB;

Assignee:

StorageOS Limited, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0623 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 16/90335 (2019.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for handling requests for data corresponding to a volume of data are disclosed. A method involves generating meta data corresponding to a volume of data, the meta data including a set of range status registers, wherein each range status register corresponds to a unique range of memory in the volume of data, wherein the state of a range status register indicates whether or not data has been persisted within the range of memory that corresponds to the range status register and processing a request for a retrieve operation from the volume of data or for a persist operation to the volume of data as a function of a range status register in the meta data that corresponds to the request.


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