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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015

Filed:

May. 31, 2012
Applicant:

Jonathan M. Haswell, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jonathan M. Haswell, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30949 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to an embodiment of the invention, cache management comprises maintaining a cache comprising a hash table including rows of data items in the cache, wherein each row in the hash table is associated with a hash value representing a logical block address (LBA) of each data item in that row. Searching for a target data item in the cache includes calculating a hash value representing a LBA of the target data item, and using the hash value to index into a counting Bloom filter that indicates that the target data item is either not in the cache, indicating a cache miss, or that the target data item may be in the cache. If a cache miss is not indicated, using the hash value to select a row in the hash table, and indicating a cache miss if the target data item is not found in the selected row.


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