US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 12 for "System and method for managing metadata access locking in cache" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,756, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing metadata access locking in cache" was invented by Jason E. Raff (Bedford, N.H.), Socheavy D. Heng (Framingham, Mass.) and Vikram A. Prabhakar (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a metadata input/output (IO) request on a first storage node of a storage system. The metadata IO request may be partitioned into a plurality of metadata pages. The plurality of metadata pages may include a plurality of logical metadata pages and a plurality of virtual metad...