Appeal No. 96-3294
Application 08/055,422
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-10.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a fileserver
buffer manager and method based on file access operation
statistics, in particular, on read/write ratios.
Claim 9 is reproduced below.
9. In a client-server computer system in which a
fileserver stores files and has memory buffers for
caching portions of said files for more rapid access by
clients, an improved method for managing said memory
buffers, comprising the steps of:
grouping related files into filesets;
collecting fileserver access operation statistics
for each of said filesets;
classifying said filesets into a plurality of
fileset categories having similar collected access
operation statistics; and
effectively applying a different fileserver buffer
management policy to files in each of said fileset
categories.
The examiner relies on the following prior art
references:
Mattson et al. (Mattson) 4,463,424 July 31,
1984
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