Patent №
US 5,895,488
Granted
1999-04-20
Filed 1997
Owner
ECCS, INC.
+3 more
Lab
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AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08805086
Methods and apparatus for managing a cache which includes a number of dirty lines in which (a) the percentage of dirty lines in the cache is determined, (b) the cache is flushed if the determined percentage of dirty lines exceeds a predetermined threshold, (c) whether a state of a system is idle is determined based on at least two indicators including (i) CPU idle percentage, (ii) data bus busyness percentage, (iii) percentage of dirty lines, and (iv) I/Os per second, and (d) if the state of the system is determined to be idle, a line of the cache is flushed.
AI classification
Ownership
ECCS, INC.
assignment · 84150443
STORAGE ENGINE, INC.
namechg · 130890549
SYMANTEC CORPORATION
assignment · 306020772
POWER MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISES, LLC
assignment · 310660401
Assignors
LOECHEL, BARBARA
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.