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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2007
James Johnson Allen, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven Kenneth Jenkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
James A. Mossman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Raymond Trombley, Cary, NC (US);
James Johnson Allen, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven Kenneth Jenkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
James A. Mossman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Raymond Trombley, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for handling speculative access requests for a storage device in a computer system is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of the total number of accesses to be speculatively issued, and intermixing demand accesses and speculative accesses in accordance with the speculative access threshold. In another embodiment, a method for reducing data access latency experienced by a user in a computer network is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a web page comprising a link to a data file stored on a database connected to the computer network, selecting a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of data accesses which are to be speculatively provided to the user, and speculatively providing the data file in accordance with the speculative access threshold.