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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lih-Sheng Chiou, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Witkowski, Tomball, TX (US);
Hawkins Yao, San Jose, CA (US);
Cheh-Suei Yang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxxan Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/208 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/208 ;
Abstract
A cache system and method in accordance with the invention includes a cache near the target devices and another cache at the requesting host side so that the data traffic across the computer network is reduced. A cache updating and invalidation method are described.