US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 15 for "Prefetch mechanism for tiered streaming storage systems" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,908, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prefetch mechanism for tiered streaming storage systems" was invented by Raul Gracia (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods employ a data prefetch mechanism for tiered streaming storage systems. Disclosed features improve performance and efficiency of batch reads, i.e., read operations that require data imported from a long-term storage service. In at least some embodiments, disclosed systems and methods execute asynchronous, parallel prefetch reads from long-term storage while a reader is performing batch reads. The...