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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 08:21 PM EDT |
no you have got to look at the claims,
see claim 12, any OS with malloc should do:
The caching of system claim 1 wherein each of said computers runs an operating
system and each of said cache drivers allocate to the cache space in the memory
of the computer in which the cache driver resides when creating the cache.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT |
It could indeed. In fact the patent lists some Open VMS manuals and says they
are incorporated into the patent: The present preferred embodiment
of the invention operates under the OpenVMS system. The help in an understanding
of the I/O processes in this cache application the reader may find the following
OpenVMS documentation useful.
The contents of the following books are hereby
incorporated by reference herein.
Title: VAX/VMS Internals and Data
Structures: version 5.2
Authors: Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah,
with
the assistance of Denise E. Dumas Publisher: Digital Press
ISBN:
1-55558-C59-9
Title: VMS File System Internals
Author: Kirby
McCoy
Publisher: Digital Press
ISBN: 1-55558-C56-4 Open VMS
Manuals
The following manuals are contained in the various Open VMS Manual
documentation sets and kits available from Digital Equipment Corporation.
The following two manuals are contained in the Open VMS Optional
Documentation kit:
Title: Open VMS VAX Device Support
Manual
Order No.: AA-PWC8A-TE
Title: Open VMS VAX Device Support
Reference Manual 15 Order No.: AA-PWC9A-TE
The following manual is contained
in the Advanced System Management kit within the Open VMS Standard Documentaticn
set: 2Q
Title: VMScluster Systems for Open VMS
Order No.:
AA-PV5WA-TK
The following two manuals are contained in the Open VMS Systems
Integrated Products documentation:
Title: VAX Volume Shadowing Manual
25
Order No.: AA-LB18A-TE
Title: Volume Shadowing for Open
VMS
Order No.: AA-PVXMA-TE
The above OpenVMS manuals can be obtained
from 30 Digital Equipment Ccirporation at the following address: Digital
Equipment Corporation P.O. Box CS2008 Nashua, New Hampshire
03061
USA 35 All of the above listed OpenVMS manuals are hereby
incorporated by reference herein.
The patent issued in 1999. It lists James I. Percival as the inventor, and
EEC Systems, Inc. as the original assignee. Keep in mind what we've learned
about patents, that the only thing that truly matters are the claims, not the
description, so if you are free to read patents, click on the link to Claims.
Here are the claims as plain
text. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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