US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Paging metadata into memory" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,103, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Paging metadata into memory" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to paging metadata into memory. In embodiments, a metadata demand score is calculated for each extent of a storage array based on hit forecasts and read forecasts corresponding to input/output (IO) operations targeting each extent. Further, each extent can be ranked based on their respective metadata demand scores. Additionally, metadata can be paged into memor...