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Samsung patents database method using faster storage for speed

Samsung describes a system that uses two types of memory to manage database records. It checks if the device has permission to use the faster memory for logging changes, then writes these logs to the fast storage to improve performance. If the fast storage cannot hold the logs, the system falls back to the slower, main storage.

Why it mattersThis is a technical improvement for how devices handle data logging, which could make database operations slightly faster but is unlikely to be noticeable to everyday users.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory including a first storage and a second storage with faster access speed than the first storage storing instructions, and at least one processor comprising processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively cause the electronic device to verify, using information related to a database stored in the memory, whether authority to perform read and write operations on the database using the second storage from among the first storage and the second storage is granted, based on verifying that the authority has been granted, execute a function of generating, in the second storage, journal information related to a database stored in the first storage, based on the execution of the function, update, based on the journal information stored in the second storage, the journal information stored in the second storage according to a transaction related to the database, and based on the execution of the function, generate journal information in the first storage based on identifying that the journal information is not generated in the second storage by the execution of the function, generate the journal information in the first storage.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: memory including a first storage and a second storage having a faster access speed than the first storage, the memory storing instructions; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: verify, using information related to a database stored in the memory, whether authority to perform read and write operations on the database using the second storage from among the first storage or the second storage is granted, based on verifying that the authority is granted, execute a function of generating, in the second storage, journal information related to the database stored in the first storage, and based on the execution of the function: based on the journal information stored in the second storage, update the journal information stored in the second storage according to a transaction related to the database, and based on identifying that the journal information is not generated in the second storage by the execution of the function, generate the journal information in the first storage.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATABASE USING HIGH-SPEED STORAGE
Publication number
US20260277878A1
Application number
19676134
Filed
May 13, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 16/2379 Physics & computingG06F 21/6218 Physics & computing
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