Patent ID: 9588767
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a memory having computer readable instructions; and one or more processors for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions comprising: receiving a write request, the write request including a memory address and write data; reading stored data from a memory location at the memory address; determining whether previous write requests specifying the memory address resulted in a write to the memory location, the determining based on a value of a modified bit, in a modified bitmap, that corresponds to the memory address, the modified bit having a value of set when the memory location was previously written to and a value of reset when the memory location was not previously written to; based on determining that the memory location was not previously written to: based on determining that the memory location was previously written to: providing at least one of an application and an operating system access to the silent store bitmap.