CACHE FLUSHING METHODS AND APPARATUS

Patent №

US 5,895,488

Granted

1999-04-20

Filed 1997

Owner

ECCS, INC.

+3 more

Lab

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 hardwareG06F 12/0804G06F 12/0866

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Machine learning0.09
Natural language0.01
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

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.

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC