US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 14 for "I/O request performance improvement using backend as a service" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,937, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"I/O request performance improvement using backend as a service" was invented by Earl Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Rong Yu (West Roxbury, Mass.), Lixin Pang (Needham, Mass.) and Jiahui Wang (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided for utilizing additional and available system resources to cache one or more incoming I/O write requests. A storage processor may implement a policy including a Backend as a Service (BEaaS) to use a node pair backend, a fabric network, and other...