US Patent Issued to Intel on June 10 for "System, apparatus, and method for scheduling metadata requests" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,045, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, apparatus, and method for scheduling metadata requests" was invented by Ramya Jayaram Masti (Hillsboro, Ore.), Thomas Toll (Portland, Ore.), Adrian C. Moga (Portland, Ore.) and Vincent Von Bokern (Rescue, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a memory and a scheduler. The scheduler is coupled to the memory and a memory controller. The memory stores a plurality of metadata requests. Each of the plurality of metadata requests is associated with one of a plurality of metadata priority levels. The scheduler schedul...