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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:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Antonios Printezis, Burlington, MA (US);
John W. Coomes, Felton, CA (US);
Inventors:
Antonios Printezis, Burlington, MA (US);
John W. Coomes, Felton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for establishing a dense prefix for a memory in a computer system. Memory is divided into a plurality of chunks. An efficiency factor is generated for each chunk in one or more chunks contained in the plurality of chunks. The efficiency factor may be based on an amount of memory to be reclaimed, an amount of memory to be scanned and an amount of memory to be copied relative to the chunk. A dense prefix is then established for the memory based on an efficiency factor associated with a chunk.