Patent ID: 9594684
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for temporarily storing data, wherein the method is applied to a storage device, which comprises a source agent and a target agent, and the method comprises: sending, by the source agent, a data obtaining request to the target agent; receiving, by the source agent, target data that corresponds to the data obtaining request and is returned by the target agent; determining, by the source agent, whether a snooping request that is for the target data and sent by the target agent is received after the data obtaining request is sent and before the target data is received, wherein the snooping request indicates that the target agent is simultaneously processing an obtaining request from another source agent for the target data; and if the snooping request is received, discarding, by the source agent, the target data, or if the snooping request is not received, saving, by the source agent, the target data.