US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Optimized storage caching for computer clusters using metadata" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,570, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimized storage caching for computer clusters using metadata" was invented by Joseph W. Dain (Tucson, Ariz.), Simon Lorenz (Biebertal, Germany), Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, N.Y.), Gero Friedrich Wolf Schmidt (Mainz, Germany), Qais Noorshams (Frankfurt, Germany) and Gregory T. Kishi (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program for managing computer jobs in a queue is provided. This comprises extracting metadata from a new job received for processing and upon determining when a similar ...