Patents Examined by Matthen D. Anderson
  • Initializing selected extents of a storage device
    Patent number: 6574703
    Abstract: A system and method for initializing large portions, or extents, of a mass-storage device in the background so that such overwriting processes do not significantly affect latency as experienced by a host. The method extends the use a system intended for background copying of data from a source extent to a destination extent to that of initializing an extent on a mass-storage device. It does so by causing the system to treat the defined extent as both a source extent and as a destination extent simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Arieh Don, Haim Kopylovitz, Aviram Cohen, Hana Moreshet, Alexandr Veprinsky, Philip E. Tamer