US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Providing demotion hints with track access requests to cause a storage controller to manage the tracks using a transient cache list and prolonged cache list" (Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,420, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing demotion hints with track access requests to cause a storage controller to manage the tracks using a transient cache list and prolonged cache list" was invented by Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.), Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.), Kyler A. Anderson (Sahuarita, Ariz.), Mark A. Lehrer (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Christopher Daniel Filachek (Lagrangeville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing demotion hints with track access requests. A track access request is ge...