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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2000
Kenneth Dale Aaker, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for ordering and retrieving pages of data in a computer operating system is provided. The invention provides for ordering pages of data in a computer operating system during execution of a program file according the order in which the pages are accessed. In one embodiment, a time-ordered access sequence of a plurality of uncompressed pages of data is traced. The plurality of uncompressed pages of data is then compressed into one or more blocks of compressed pages and correlated with the one or more blocks of compressed pages in a relocation directory. The one or more blocks of compressed pages can then be stored according to the time-ordered access sequence.