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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRalph Becker Szendy, Arif Merchant
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A method and apparatus is provided for measuring and optimizing the orientation of data access of an electronic storage device according to data access characteristics. Monitoring storage access activity in an area of storage space is performed to gather data pertaining to one or more storage access characteristics. Measuring is performed of the characteristics of the storage access activity of at least two individual portions of the storage space. The portions are then combined in a manner to more judiciously utilize storage space. Depending on their homogeneity of access characteristics, the individual portions may then be left alone, merged with other similar portions, or further subdivided into sub-portions, which may be further merged, divided or left alone. At each merger or division determinations can then be made of whether the characteristics of storage access activity of one individual portion or sub-portion are similar to that of another portion according to predetermined criteria.
A method for managing data access, comprising:
In an electronic storage medium, a tree structured method of partitioning storage space of the storage medium, for use in monitoring and transforming the spatial segmentation of access to data stored in the medium, the method comprising;
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