US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Dynamic block write cache pass-through mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,316, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic block write cache pass-through mode" was invented by Junxiang Wang (Shanghai), Xigeng Sun (Shanghai), Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.), Sijia Huang (Shanghai), Yingrui Tong (Shanghai), Yuxing Zhou (Shanghai), Zhihao Liu (Shanghai) and Bangzhu Zhu (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for transitioning write input/output (I/O) requests from a write-caching mode to a pass-through mode. The method includes determining when a condition has been met for transitioning the write I/O requests and de-staging one o...