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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keith Lowery, Garland, TX (US);
Vlad Fruchter, Los Altos, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory appliance system is described that includes a memory unit comprising a memory unit controller and a plurality of memory devices. A reconfigurable memory structure is stored in the plurality of memory devices, wherein the memory structure comprises a plurality of variably sized containers. Each container of data includes metadata, payload, and relationship information that associates a corresponding container with one or more other containers stored in the memory structure. The controller is data structure aware such that the controller is configured to traverse the memory structure and perform operations on the memory structure based on the metadata and relationship information.