Patents by Inventor Rick Mangold

Rick Mangold 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).

  • Method for reducing number of writes in a cache memory
    Patent number: 7966456
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reducing number of writes in a write-back non-volatile cache memory. The method comprises: writing a plurality of data in the cache memory, wherein cache lines meta data for each of the plurality of data is marked as dirty; determining a set of data of the plurality of the data in the cache memory to be flushed to a hard disk, wherein the hard disk is operatively coupled to the cache memory; flushing the set of data of the plurality of data to the hard disk from the cache memory; and writing a clean-marker to the cache memory specifying which of the plurality of the data has been flushed to the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjeev N. Trika, Rick Mangold, Andrew Vogan
  • METHOD FOR REDUCING NUMBER OF WRITES IN A CACHE MEMORY
    Publication number: 20090089508
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reducing number of writes in a write-back non-volatile cache memory. The method comprises: writing a plurality of data in the cache memory, wherein cache lines meta data for each of the plurality of data is marked as dirty; determining a set of data of the plurality of the data in the cache memory to be flushed to a hard disk, wherein the hard disk is operatively coupled to the cache memory; flushing the set of data of the plurality of data to the hard disk from the cache memory; and writing a clean-marker to the cache memory specifying which of the plurality of the data has been flushed to the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sanjeev N. Trika, Rick Mangold, Andrew Vogan