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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2010
Applicants:
Arnaldo Zimmermann, Fremont, CA (US);
James Imoto, Newark, CA (US);
Livio Ceci, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Avocent Corporation, Huntsville, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A background scheduler is provided that utilizes low-level communications (e.g., communications with a generic or controller-specific solid state, non-volatile memory driver) to control locking, reading, rewriting and unlocking of pages of data in the non-volatile memory. Such low-level communications cause data to be rewritten to the non-volatile memory independent of the file system in an effort to avoid data loss prior to an estimated data retention period.