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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:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2010
Applicant:
Kenneth A. Sell, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth A. Sell, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing information are disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes collecting information about a database, determining a first disk to read from based on the collected information, determining a second disk to write to based on the collected information, and performing a write operation on the second disk. In some embodiments, a read operation may be performed on the first disk contemporaneously with the write operation on the second disk, and the read operation may be the only operation performed on the first disk at a time.