US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 25 for "Allocating system RDP metadata space with IO performance priority" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,793, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Allocating system RDP metadata space with IO performance priority" was invented by Nicholas Von Hein (Riverside, R.I.), Michael Ferrari (Douglas, Mass.), Kevin Tobin (Hopedale, Mass.), Gu Huang (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Akshay Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory management processes allocate and recycle pages of replication data pointer (RDP) metadata space in shared memory. When the RDP page currently allocated to an IO thread becomes full, that RDP page is released, and a new RDP page is allocated to the IO thread. The relea...