公开(公告)号：US10216637B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US15216059

申请日：2016-07-21

申请人： Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

发明人： Cenk Ergan ,  Clark D. Nicholson ,  Dan Teodosiu ,  Dean L. DeWhitt ,  Emily Nicole Wilson ,  Hanumantha R. Kodavalla ,  Michael J. Zwilling ,  John M. Parchem ,  Michael R. Fortin ,  Nathan Steven Obr ,  Rajeev Y. Nagar ,  Surenda Verma ,  Therron Powell ,  William J. Westerinen ,  Mark Joseph Zbikowski ,  Patrick L. Stemen

IPC分类号： G06F12/12 ,  G06F12/0866 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/08

摘要： In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are provided for controlling the use of the non-volatile memory as a write buffer and a read cache. Additionally, a portion of the non-volatile memory is used to provide a direct mapping for specified sectors of the long-term storage media. Descriptive data regarding the persistent storage device is stored in another portion of the non-volatile memory.

公开(公告)号：US20160210058A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-21

申请号：US15080357

申请日：2016-03-24

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Alexander Kirshenbaum ,  Cenk Ergan ,  Michael R. Fortin ,  Robert L. Reinauer

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/08

CPC分类号： G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0655 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  G06F3/0688 ,  G06F12/0866

摘要： The invention is directed towards a system and method that utilizes external memory devices to cache sectors from a rotating storage device (e.g., a hard drive to improve system performance. When an external memory device (EMD) is plugged into the computing device or onto a network in which the computing device is connected, the system recognizes the EMD and populates the EMD with disk sectors. The system routes I/O read requests directed to the disk sector to the EMD cache instead of the actual disk sector. The use of EMDs increases performance and productivity on the computing device systems for a fraction of the cost of adding memory to the computing device.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种利用外部存储器件来缓存来自旋转存储设备（例如，硬盘驱动器以提高系统性能）的扇区的系统和方法，当将外部存储器件（EMD）插入到计算设备或者 网络，计算设备连接在一起，系统识别EMD并填充EMD与磁盘扇区，系统将指向磁盘扇区的I / O读请求路由到EMD缓存而不是实际的磁盘扇区，使用EMD 在计算设备系统上提高性能和生产率，只需将计算设备的内存增加一小部分。

公开(公告)号：US11334484B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US15340826

申请日：2016-11-01

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Michael R. Fortin ,  Robert L. Reinauer

IPC分类号： G06F12/0804 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06F12/0808 ,  G06F12/12 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0868 ,  G06F12/0873

摘要： Determining and using the ideal size of memory to be transferred from high speed memory to a low speed memory may result in speedier saves to the low speed memory and a longer life for the low speed memory.

公开(公告)号：US20170132136A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15216059

申请日：2016-07-21

申请人： Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

发明人： Cenk Ergan ,  Clark D. Nicholson ,  Daniel Teodosiu ,  Dean L. DeWhitt ,  Emily Nicole Wilson ,  Hanumantha R. Kodavalla ,  Michael J. Zwilling ,  John M. Parchem ,  Michael R. Fortin ,  Nathan Steven Obr ,  Rajeev Y. Nagar ,  Surenda Verma ,  Therron Powell ,  William J. Westerinen ,  Mark Joseph Zbikowski ,  Patrick L. Stemen

IPC分类号： G06F12/0866 ,  G06F3/06

CPC分类号： G06F12/0866 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0656 ,  G06F3/0679 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F2212/1016 ,  G06F2212/222 ,  G06F2212/281 ,  G06F2212/305 ,  G06F2212/312 ,  G06F2212/313 ,  Y02D10/13

摘要： In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are provided for controlling the use of the non-volatile memory as a write buffer and a read cache. Additionally, a portion of the non-volatile memory is used to provide a direct mapping for specified sectors of the long-term storage media. Descriptive data regarding the persistent storage device is stored in another portion of the non-volatile memory.

公开(公告)号：US20170052892A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-23

申请号：US15340826

申请日：2016-11-01

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Michael R. Fortin ,  Robert L. Reinauer

IPC分类号： G06F12/0804 ,  G06F12/0868 ,  G06F12/0873 ,  G06F3/06

CPC分类号： G06F12/0804 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0616 ,  G06F3/065 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  G06F12/0246 ,  G06F12/0808 ,  G06F12/0868 ,  G06F12/0873 ,  G06F12/12 ,  G06F2212/1024 ,  G06F2212/1036 ,  G06F2212/3042 ,  G06F2212/305 ,  G06F2212/7211

摘要： Determining and using the ideal size of memory to be transferred from high speed memory to a low speed memory may result in speedier saves to the low speed memory and a longer life for the low speed memory.

摘要翻译： 确定和使用要从高速存储器传输到低速存储器的存储器的理想尺寸可以更快速地节省低速存储器并且延长低速存储器的使用寿命。

公开(公告)号：US09690496B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-27

申请号：US15080357

申请日：2016-03-24

申请人： MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

发明人： Alexander Kirshenbaum ,  Cenk Ergan ,  Michael R. Fortin ,  Robert L. Reinauer

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F12/0866

CPC分类号： G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0655 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  G06F3/0688 ,  G06F12/0866

摘要： The invention is directed towards a system and method that utilizes external memory devices to cache sectors from a rotating storage device (e.g., a hard drive) to improve system performance. When an external memory device (EMD) is plugged into the computing device or onto a network in which the computing device is connected, the system recognizes the EMD and populates the EMD with disk sectors. The system routes I/O read requests directed to the disk sector to the EMD cache instead of the actual disk sector. The use of EMDs increases performance and productivity on the computing device systems for a fraction of the cost of adding memory to the computing device.