Appeal No. 2001-0517
Application No. 08/586,611
drive without a priori knowledge of its performance
characteristics. That is, the claimed invention represents a new
paradigm in optimizing computer system performance through
dynamically benchmarking the hard drive resident within the
system, thereby overcoming the inherent limitations commonly
associated with the old paradigm of the prior art wherein a
priori performance information of the hard drive was required.
Accordingly, the claimed invention liberates circuit board
vendors from the time and expense associated with offering a
plurality of boards each of which is designed to optimally
interface with a specific hard drive. A further illustration of
the invention is obtained from the following claim.
8. A computer system comprising a processor, a hard drive
and a function, wherein, when executed by the processor, the
function determines an optimal access block size of the hard
drive by benchmarking accesses to the hard drive for a plurality
of benchmarking access block sizes in accordance with a set of
benchmarking parameters.
The examiner relies on the following references:
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Martins et al. (Martins), “ARQ Protocols with Adaptive Block Size
Perform Better Over a Wide Range of Bit Error Rates,” IEEE, Vol.
38, No. 6, pages 737-739, 1990.
Choudhary et al. (Choudhary), “Experimental Evaluation of
Multilevel Caches for Shared Memory Multiprocessors,” IEEE, pages
409-420, 1991.
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