US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Generating data protection directives to provide to a storage controller to control access to data in cache" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,685, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating data protection directives to provide to a storage controller to control access to data in cache" was invented by Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.), Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating data protection directives to provide to a storage controller to control access to data in cache. A data protection directive is generated for a data subset indicating access request type and a protective ac...