METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING EXTENDED DISK SECTOR FORMATTING TO ASSIST IN BACKUP AND HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT

Patent №

US 6,973,553

Granted

2005-12-06

Filed 2000

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09692957

A method and apparatus for providing extended disk sector formatting to assist in backup and hierarchical storage management is disclosed. A part of the extended sector format is used to include a field for indicating whether data was written since the last backup. This backup field may be a single bit or could be larger to indicate age since last backup.

AI hardwareG06F 11/1451G06F 11/1456

AI classification

AI hardware0.83
Natural language0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 112710240

Assignors

ARCHIBALD, JOHN EDWARD JR., MCKEAN, BRIAN DENNIS

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