Patent · US Expired

Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium

US6934807B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2000
Grant dateAug 23, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0676
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Data is read in response to a request for a predetermined amount of data. The amount of data that has been read is determined prior to completing reading the predetermined amount of data. The predetermined amount of data may include prefetch data and demand data, where demand data is data for a computer program and prefetch data is data adjacent to the demand data.

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