Patents by Inventor John E. Kellar

John E. Kellar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Adaptive Caching of Input / Output Data
    Publication number: 20090055587
    Abstract: To improve caching techniques, so as to realize greater hit rates within available memory, of the present invention utilizes a entropy signature from the compressed data blocks to supply a bias to pre-fetching operations. The method of the present invention for caching data involves detecting a data I/O request, relative to a data object, and then selecting appropriate I/O to cache, wherein said selecting can occur with or without user input, or with or without application or operating system preknowledge. Such selecting may occur dynamically or manually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventor: John E. Kellar
  • Adaptive input / output compressed system and data cache and system using same
    Patent number: 7430638
    Abstract: To improve caching techniques, so as to realize greater hit rates within available memory, of the present invention utilizes a entropy signature from the compressed data blocks to supply a bias to pre-fetching operations. The method of the present invention for caching data involves detecting a data I/O request, relative to a data object, and then selecting appropriate I/O to cache, wherein said selecting can occur with or without user input, or with or without application or operating system preknowledge. Such selecting may occur dynamically or manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Mossman Holdings LLC
    Inventor: John E. Kellar