US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 30 for "Log-based block cache de-stage and backend storage" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,081, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Log-based block cache de-stage and backend storage" was invented by Zhihao Liu (Shanghai), Xigeng Sun (Shanghai), Yingrui Tong (Shanghai), Sijia Huang (Shanghai), Yuxing Zhou (Shanghai), Junxiang Wang (Shanghai), Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bangzhu Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Requests for a write storage operation are stored in a ring buffer. The next available request is retrieved from the ring buffer. When the next available request comprises a write operation that overlaps in a logical address range with a pr...