US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Speculative address translation service requests" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,184, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Speculative address translation service requests" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing extra traffic on the PCIe bus by initiating speculative address translation requests and aggregating them with normal address translation request can lead to significantly improved data retrieval performance. This can be achieved by issuing speculative address translation requests based on history or structure of host buffer pointers previously issued by each tenant. If the device controller determines that th...