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US 7,032,096 B2Granted
Memory management system and method using a hash table
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsWilliam Robert Haas, Kirk Steven Tecu
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Abstract
A memory management system and method includes, in one embodiment, an index location in a hash table that represents metadata, and a file memory address saved at the index location so that the hash table is searchable by a processor by entering the metadata into a hash function to transform the metadata into the index location where the memory address is stored.
Claims13
A memory management system, comprising:
- an index location in a hash table representing metadata;
- and
- a file memory address saved at said index location;
- wherein said hash table is searchable by a processor by entering metadata into a hash function to transform the metadata into said index location where said memory address is stored.
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A memory management method, comprising:
- saving a file in a memory at a memory address using a processor, said file having metadata in a metadata field;
- transforming said metadata into an index location in a hash table;
- and
- saving said memory address at said index location;
- wherein said hash table is searchable by the processor to locate said file in said memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.