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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:
Sep. 02, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Russell Cunningham, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Laurie Perry, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395821 ; 711113 ; 711207 ; 711159 ; 711160 ; 711119 ; 711122 ; 711123 ; 711203 ; 711205 ; 711206 ; 711-3 ; 711133 ; 395825 ; 395826 ; 395853 ; 395872 ; 395500 ;
Abstract
A method of caching I/O requests permits caching in the MVS environment independent of the access method protocol used to initiate an I/O request (e.g., QSAM, VSAM, Media Manager). In addition, objects can be user-prioritized for residence in the cache.