US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Metadata page prefetch processing for incoming IO operations" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,258, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Metadata page prefetch processing for incoming IO operations" was invented by Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Mohammed Aamir Vt (Bangalore, India) and Mohammed Asher (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata page prefetch processing for incoming IO operations is provided to increase storage system performance by reducing the frequency of metadata page miss events during IO processing. When an IO is received at a storage system, the IO is placed in an IO queue to be scheduled for processing by ...