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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. 01, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Allan Havemose, Arroyo Grande, CA (US);

Keith Richard Backensto, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 16/1824 (2019.01);
Abstract

A system and method for storage checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications. The system has a storage disk that stores files; a storage access interface to access the storage disk; and a computer. The computer runs the group of independent computer applications and utilizes the files stored on the storage disk. A file system on the server accesses the files stored on the storage disk. An operating system and at least one device driver can be called by the file system, and at least one buffer buffers first data written to the storage disk and second data read from the storage disk.


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