ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,946, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and system for cache management in a network device" was invented by Anju Thomas (Bangalore, India), Nitin Katiyar (Bangalore, India), Vishal Deep Ajmera (Bangalore, India) and Venkatesan Pradeep (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods to manage caches in a network device. In one embodiment, a method is performed by a network device and the method comprises determining a first cache of the network device is overloaded, where the first cache is within a cache hierarchy including a plurality of cach...