ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,249, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Location-based global cache tiering" was invented by Earl Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage processor, comprising: generating or updating a cache metadata table that identifies a plurality of cache slots, for each of the plurality of cache slots, the cache metadata table including a different respective location identifier that indicates a location for that cache slot; receiving an I/O request that is associated with a logical block address; allocating a given...