US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Using metadata to selectively perform data prestaging" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,708, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using metadata to selectively perform data prestaging" was invented by Roderick Guy Charles Moore (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Paul A. Broadhurst (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a read request for data in memory and analyzing metadata from volumes that contain the requested data. The metadata maps sequential logical addresses of the requested data to their corresponding physical addresses. The computer-implemented method also includes ...