Patent ID: 7970736
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transient computer readable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: define a first logical storage space within at least one storage device, wherein the first logical storage space is defined according to at least one characteristic of a first logical memory space in a volatile storage medium utilized for storing transient state information of a processing system; copy transient state information from a first logical location within the first logical memory space to a second logical location within the first logical storage space; determine at predetermined time intervals whether the transient state information stored at the first location within the first logical memory space has changed; and move the transient state information stored at the second logical location within the first logical storage space to a second logical storage space, in response to determining that the transient information stored at the first logical location within the first logical memory space has changed, wherein there is a one-to-one mapping between the first logical memory space and the first logical storage space.