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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:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2003
Applicant:
Shahzad H. Bhatti, Boise, ID (US);
Inventor:
Shahzad H. Bhatti, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system includes a storage medium containing blocks identified by block addresses. The storage medium stores hierarchical data structures, each hierarchical data structure containing plural levels of data objects. Each hierarchical data structure is stored in a respective group of blocks. In response to a request containing an identifier of at least one of the hierarchical data structures, a controller generates one or more block addresses based on the identifier. The controller accesses one or more blocks indicated by the one or more block addresses.