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US 2014/0181448 A1Published application
Tagging in a storage device
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDavid A. Buchholz, Dennis M. Morgan
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a command issued by an entity may be acquired by a controller contained in a storage device. The command may be issued by the entity to access a block in the storage device. The entity may be associated with a tag that may identify the entity. The tag may be associated with the block. Information about the association between the tag and the block may be stored in the storage device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- acquiring a command issued by an entity to access a block in a storage device, the command being acquired by a controller contained in the storage device, the entity being associated with a tag;
- and
- storing, in the storage device, information that associates the tag with the block.
A storage device comprising:
- a data storage containing one or more blocks for storing data;
- and
- processing logic for:
- acquiring a command issued by an entity to write data to a block contained in the storage, the entity being associated with a tag, and
- storing information that associates the tag with the block in the storage device.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a command to erase data associated with an entity, the data being contained in a block contained in a data storage in a storage device;
- searching an index, contained in a local storage in the storage device, to identify the block, the block being identified based on a tag associated with the entity matching a tag associated with the block;
- and
- erasing the data contained in the block.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.