ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,710, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Cache aware searching" was invented by Ledion Bitincka (San Francisco), Alexandros Batsakis (San Francisco), Paul J. Lucas (San Francisco) and Nicholas Robert Romito (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for performing cache aware searching. In response to a search query, a first bucket and a second bucket in remote storage for processing the search query. A determination is made that a first file in the first bucket is present in a cache when the search query is received. In response to the search query, a search is p...