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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:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2000
Martin Rex Dorricott, Basingstoke, GB;
Penelope Susan Cox, Hook, GB;
David Colin Charles Shepherd, Bath, GB;
Other;
Abstract
A data storage apparatus has a plurality p of storage spaces for storing sets of data. Each of the spaces has: available (unused) space x,for storage; a number x,of data sets already stored; a number x,of channels available for transferring data to the space; and a number x,of times the space is scheduled to be used for reading out sets of data therefrom. An allocation factor Qp=f(ai, xi) is calculated for each space where ai are weighting factors ranking xi in order of importance. A data set is allocated to the space having the “best” (e.g. lowest) value of Qp at the time the data is to be allocated. Once allocation factors determined, then data may be allocated according to usage indices representing the ability of a space to store the data at the time of allocation.
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