ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,603, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Flexible metadata allocation and caching" was invented by Taeksang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Woo (Saratoga, Calif.), Craig Hampel (Los Altos, Calif.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for flexible metadata allocation and caching. In one embodiment of the method first and second requests are received from first and second applications, respectively, wherein the requests specify a reading of first and second data, respectively, from one or more memory devices. The circuit reads the first and sec...