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US 7,240,181 · App. 11/377,705 · Granted Jul 3, 2007

Memory management system and method using a hash table

Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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Patent No.
US 7,240,181
App. No.
11/377,705
Granted
Jul 3, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A memory management method includes, in one embodiment, saving a metadata-generating algorithm in a memory, assigning the metadata-generating algorithm to a metadata field and applying the metadata-generating algorithm on at least one file so that a processor can calculate metadata for a file having no metadata in said metadata field.

Claims (16)

1. A memory management method, comprising:

saving a metadata-generating algorithm in a memory;

assigning said metadata-generating algorithm to a metadata field; and

applying said metadata-generating algorithm on at least one file so that a processor can calculate metadata for a file having no metadata in said metadata field, said applying further comprising;

searching for a file without metadata in said metadata field; and

saving said file at a memory address, updated with said calculated metadata.

2. A memory management method, comprising:

saving a metadata-generating algorithm in a memory;

assigning said metadata-generating algorithm to a metadata field;

applying said metadata-generating algorithm on at least one file so that a processor can calculate metadata for a file having no metadata in said metadata field; and

transforming said calculated metadata to an index location in a hash table so that said hash table is searchable to locate said file using said calculated metadata.

3. A memory management method, comprising:

saving a metadata-generating algorithm in a memory;

assigning said metadata-generating algorithm to a metadata field;

applying said metadata-generating algorithm on at least one file so that a processor can calculate metadata for a file having no metadata in said metadata field; and

transforming non-calculated metadata in a second metadata field in said file to a second index location in a hash table so that said hash table is searchable to locate said file using said non-calculated metadata.

Continuity (1)
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