US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Techniques using a unified cache for storing and accessing translation table entries and updates" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,186, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques using a unified cache for storing and accessing translation table entries and updates" was invented by Christopher Seibel (Walpole, Mass.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Andrew T. Feld (Keene, N.H.) and Kamakshi Viswanadha (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: storing a metadata page at new physical location PA2 on non-volatile storage; and recording in a translation table (TT) log, a TT update to a mapping entry E1 of the TT, wherein the TT update updates E1 of the TT to ma...