ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,740, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products L.P (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Data caching strategies for storage with ownership of logical address slices" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Samuel L. Mullis II (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include receiving, at a first node, a read request directed to a logical address LA owned by a second node. The first node can locally cache content and an address hint corresponding to LA. The first node can issue a request to the second node....