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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:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2010
Applicants:
Leonard E. Russo, Tomball, TX (US);
Walter A. Gaspard, Magnolia, TX (US);
Walter W. Bellamy, Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Leonard E. Russo, Tomball, TX (US);
Walter A. Gaspard, Magnolia, TX (US);
Walter W. Bellamy, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for managing a storage device including determining whether the storage device includes a non-volatile cache, scanning for a clear cache instruction received from a computing machine, and clearing the non-volatile cache on the storage device in response to authenticating the clear cache instruction.