ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,877, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for cache tiering" was invented by Earl Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage processor, comprising: receiving an I/O request that is associated with a logical block address; allocating a cache slot that corresponds to the logical block address, wherein allocating the cache slot includes: identifying a type of memory that is required to host the cache slot by using one or more configuration settings that are associated with the cache slot, ident...