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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:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Kahn, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert S. Tracy, Golden, CO (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 3/06 ; G06F 1/338 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 3/06 ; G06F 1/338 ;
Abstract
According to the invention, systems, apparatus and methods are disclosed for throttling commands to a storage device is disclosed. This method comprises sending a write request to a disk, receiving a queue full signal from the disk if the disk queue is full, and responsive to receiving the queue full signal setting a throttle value.