Patent ID: 9552176
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: discovering an instance of a block storage device that corresponds to at least one hybrid memory device installed on the computing device, the at least one hybrid memory device including at least one volatile memory portion and at least one non-volatile memory portion; generating, responsive to said discovery of the instance, a device object that represents the instance of the block storage device; loading, responsive to said generating the device object, a device driver for the at least one hybrid memory device; and presenting a visual representation of the at least one hybrid memory device, the visual representation enabling a user to interact directly with the instance of the block storage device via the device driver and the device object such that data is directly writable by the user to both the at least one volatile memory portion and the at least one non-volatile memory portion of the at least one hybrid memory device via logical block addressing.