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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. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1996
Luis Felipe Cabrera, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert M Rees, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a one-pass storage process to manage storage space in a storage hierarchy system wherein whole objects or fragments of whole objects can be retrieved efficiently. Metadata to represent appropriate geometric characteristics of storage devices, units of transfer to minimize retrieval time, and buffers, are used to control the storage allocation. A plurality of objects from an object set are aggregated into at least one object grouping for storage where the object grouping is smaller than a minimum storage size. For each object grouping and each object not in an object grouping, a determination is made of the total number of blocks of storage needed and a minimum transfer size. Extents of blocks are identified in the storage device of a size greater than the minimum transfer size totalling the total number of blocks of storage needed.
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