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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Radek Vingralek, Belmont, CA (US);
William H. Bridge, Jr., Alameda, CA (US);
Prasad Bagal, San Jose, CA (US);
Radek Vingralek, Belmont, CA (US);
William H. Bridge, Jr., Alameda, CA (US);
Prasad Bagal, San Jose, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes solutions for reducing the amount of fragmentation on a computer memory device, such as a hard disk, random access memory device, and/or the like. In an aspect, this disclosure describes systems, methods and software for allocating storage space for variable-sized data chunks in a fashion that reduces or eliminates the need for periodic de-fragmentation of the memory device. In another aspect, this disclosure describes solutions that provide for the dynamic re-allocation of existing data blocks on the memory device to provide contiguous available space that can be allocated for new data blocks.