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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Allan Scherr, Framingham, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A network accelerator storage caching system manages a number of cache management systems and may be inserted at any point in a network to provide a configurable, scalable variety of cache management systems to improve perceived response time. Depending on the configuration(s) selected, a cache management system may manage data in a storage cache on the basis of time-currency, page usage frequency, charging considerations, pre-fetching algorithms, data-usage patterns, store-through methods for updated pages, a least recently used method, B-tree algorithms, or indexing techniques including named element ordering, among others. In a preferred embodiment the configurable cache management is embedded in the storage media, either as firmware in a storage controller or as software executing in a central processing unit (CPU) in a storage controller. In a preferred embodiment the network accelerator storage caching system provides security measures for protecting data and is dynamically configurable.