ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,777, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA Co. LTD. (Kanata, Canada) and The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Systems and methods to generate a cache miss ratio curve where cache data has a time-to-live" was invented by Sari Sultan (Toronto), Kia Shakiba (Toronto), Albert Lee (Toronto), Michael Stumm (Toronto), Ming Chen (Kanata, Canada) and Chung-Man Abelard Chow (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a given application, increasing the size of a cache is beneficial up to a certain point and the number of hits does not increase significantly with a greater cache size. Th...