US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Page pool descriptor cache" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,892, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Page pool descriptor cache" was invented by Arjun Thottappilly (Oviedo, Fla.) and Frank W. Liljeros (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to managing page pools for sets of processing work. In some embodiments, page manager circuitry maintains, in memory circuitry, page pool descriptor information that indicates memory pages allocated to multiple different page pools. It may cache page pool descriptor information from the memory circuitry in a page pool descriptor cache, where the page pool descriptor cache includes multip...