US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Jan. 20 for "Streamlined file system memory input/output operations" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,323, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Streamlined file system memory input/output operations" was invented by Neeraj Kumar Singh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable file systems to streamline operations on cached file data. This is accomplished by utilizing a direct access path and an optimization flag that indicates the status of an external lock for a given file data. External locks can be utilized to lock some or all of a file to prevent unexpected changes during an operation and ensure consistency in file data. A direct access path ...