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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ; 36423951 ; 36424341 ; 3642472 ; 3642474 ; 3642592 ;
Abstract
In a storage system having a main storage and a buffer storage accessable by a plurality of requesters, the buffer storage comprises a buffer storage data area having a plurality of storage areas for storing a portion of data of the main storage as a copy of the main storage for each predetermined storage unit, and a buffer storage address area for storing addresses of the predetermined storage units corresponding to the storage areas. The buffer storage address area is divided into a plurality of address area banks each interleaved by storage unit, and the buffer storage data area is divided into a plurality of data area banks each interleaved by an access width unit.