Patent ID: 9411518
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for accelerating responses to requests for transactions involving data operations, the method comprising: presenting from a server device a logical disk having corresponding storage resources, the logical disk being presented to an application container; maintaining a disk block cache corresponding to the logical disk and the storage resources within the server device, the cache including blocks of data for the logical disk that are determined as being accessed by the application container, the cache being resident in a memory having a responsiveness that is faster than a responsiveness of the storage resources, the cache being transparent to the application container to which the logical disk is presented; receiving from the application container a transaction request that involves a data operation on the logical disk, the transaction request being received through a first connection; satisfying the data operation on the logical disk using the cache; and reconciling the cache with data for the logical disk that is stored on the storage resources, through a second connection with the storage resources.