US Patent Issued to NETAPP on April 29 for "Methods for facilitating external cache in a cloud storage environment and devices thereof" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,763, issued on April 29, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for facilitating external cache in a cloud storage environment and devices thereof" was invented by Brian Naylor (Raleigh, N.C.) and Rajesh Rajaraman (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and storage server computing device that stores an identifier for a file system block evicted from a buffer cache in an entry in a table. The file system block is inserted into a victim cache hosted by an ephemeral block-level storage device by invoking a function provided by an application programming interface (...