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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
May. 21, 2007
Amir Mosek, Tel Aviv, IL;
Amir Lehr, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Yacov Duzly, Ra'Anana, IL;
Menahem Lasser, Kohav Yair, IL;
Amir Mosek, Tel Aviv, IL;
Amir Lehr, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Yacov Duzly, Ra'Anana, IL;
Menahem Lasser, Kohav Yair, IL;
Sandisk IL Ltd., Kfar Saba, IL;
Abstract
The present invention discloses methods for improving data-retrieval times from a non-volatile storage device. A method for preloading data to improve data-retrieval times from a non-volatile storage device, the method including the steps of: providing a cache memory for preloading the data upon a host-system request to read the data; determining that a plurality of data segments that constitute a non-contiguous data object, stored in the storage device such that at least one data segment is non-contiguous to a preceding data segment in the data object, are in a predictable sequence; and preloading a non-contiguous next data segment in the predictable sequence into the cache memory after loading a current data segment into a host system from the cache memory, wherein the next data segment is preloaded prior to the host-system request to read the next data segment.