Patent ID: 9460001
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying access rate boundaries of workloads, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: tracking the number of times each region of data within a plurality of regions of data is accessed during a period of time; creating, based on the number of accesses tracked for each region of data, an ordered list of each region of data from the plurality of regions of data, wherein the ordered list lists each region of data in at least one of: calculating one or more drops in access rates between two or more regions of data in the ordered list; determining that a calculated access-rate drop from a first region of data to a second region of data exceeds a predefined threshold; in response to determining that the calculated access-rate drop exceeds the predefined threshold, calculating, based on an access rate of the first region of data, a boundary access rate for a workload of data, the workload comprising regions of data with access rates greater than the boundary access rate and excluding regions of data with access rates less than the boundary access rate.