Patent ID: 9507402
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory memory storage device having instructions, that when executed in a computing platform, cause it to perform a method, comprising: monitoring, by a policy engine within a storage drive driver associated with a storage drive, storage drive access request(s) to the storage drive to detect a first storage drive access request to the storage drive; queuing the first storage drive access request; determining whether the first storage drive access is a media access request; upon positive determination, undoing any pending power-down actions for the storage drive to bring the storage drive to a fully powered-on mode to complete the first storage drive access request; and upon negative determination, partially undoing any pending power-down actions for the storage drive to bring the storage drive to a partially powered-on mode to complete the first storage drive access request.