Patent ID: 9430167
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining a host-based memory for a host computing device, wherein data obtained from a storage array in response to one or more read requests is stored in the host-based memory, the storage array comprising an array-based memory and configured to perform one or more data pre-fetch operations; monitoring at the host computing device for the occurrence of a set of sequential read requests, wherein the set of sequential read requests comprises two or more sequential read requests; and sending the two or more sequential read requests of the set from the host computing device together to the storage array even when one or more read requests of the set of sequential read requests match data stored in the host-based memory, such that the storage array is enabled to perform one or more data pre-fetch operations and to store pre-fetched data in the array-based memory responsive to the set of sequential read requests.