Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium
US6934807B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2000 |
| Grant date | Aug 23, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 31, 2020 |
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- 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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