METHOD OF CACHING DATA

• Main Authors: SAITO, FUMITOSHI, UEMURA, TOYOTOSHI, SAKANASHI, TATSUYA, MATSUKI, HIROMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; Japanese
• Published: 25.05.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS

When a computer requests to retrieve data stored in a recording medium, it is decided whether there are cache hits for the requested data in a read buffer. Only the data that are not associated with the cache hits are retrieved from the recording medium and stored in the read buffer. The requested d...