Patent ID: 6216210
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising:at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing skipping back to a desired logical record within a physical block of a storage medium, said physical block comprising one of a plurality of physical blocks of the storage medium, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising:(i) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect evaluating a current block to determine a number of logical records in the current block;(ii) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect determining whether the desired logical record is within the current block using said number of records in the current block, and if so, providing a pointer to the desired logical record for skipping back to said desired logical record; andwherein said computer readable program code means for causing a computer to determine (ii) comprises computer readable program code means for causing a computer to evaluate whether the number of logical records in the current block is greater than or equal to a number of logical records left to be skipped before reaching said desired logical record, and if yes, said computer readable program code means for causing a computer to provide comprises setting said pointer to the desired logical record within the current block for skipping back to.