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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 07:39 AM EDT |
Hopefully they use this patent to bury the technology which is obviously too
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| Authored by: macrorodent on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 07:43 AM EDT |
Also "Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive" in newspics.
My first reaction was that this has got to have tons of prior art! Like the AFS
distributed file system and its relatives (eg. CODA).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 07:57 AM EDT |
VAX clusters had shared disks from the beginning in 1983 (16 years before this
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 10:48 AM EDT |
Google that, you'll get the Google patent page for it. Good luck with that,
"Superspeed LLC", you're going to need it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Patent 5918244 - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:56 PM EDT
- Patent 5918244 - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 08:21 PM EDT
- Patent 5918244 - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 12:59 PM EDT |
Not specific to hard drives, but back in 1996 the Motorola
68040 used snooping to manage shared memory/private cache
multiple processors in what seems to be a similar manner.
Extending the idea to computers and disks is obvious.
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If this ended well, it wouldn't be on "Funniest Home Videos".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 05:46 PM EDT |
How can that even come close to passing muster for a patent?
Every page of every website would have to violate this patent. Unless you think
that every page is generated from a different disk on the fly at the time you
request the page.
God, the patent system is just so ... so ... so broken.
That's not what I want to say. But you all know I can't say what I really want
to say here. There has to be a real fix for this, and soon.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:11 PM EDT |
Hardware RAID has long had write caching. Read caching should be anticipated by
that. Remember that hardware RAID has software buried in the firmware. So any
caching done in hardware RAID would be implemented by software, wither in the
form of firmware, or dedicated logic circuitry, or both.
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