Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Janyce Mitchell
  • Method and system for performing variable aging to optimize a memory resource
    Patent number: 6453386
    Abstract: A method and system for performing aging of a memory in a computer system is disclosed. The memory contains a plurality of items. The method and system include purging the memory of a portion of the plurality of items each time an epoch equal to an aging variable has expired. The method and system further include providing the aging variable for a new epoch based on a performance of the memory in a previous epoch, including the aging variable of the previous epoch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clark Debs Jeffries, Piyush Chunilal Patel, Gail Irene Woodland