ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,261, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Write buffer linking for easy cache reads" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved optimization of a cache lookup operation by structuring the write cache buffers differently using a link-list. Rather than executing a read command first and then executing a write command only after the read command is executed, this disclosure suggests reordering the command executions. A device waits before executing the read command giv...