ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,811, issued on May 12, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Multi-tier memory reclamation" was invented by Junfeng Dong (Sammamish, Wash.), Ajay Kalhan (Redmond, Wash.), Michael E. Habben (Sammamish, Wash.), John M. Oslake (Seattle), Preetham Melavarige Gopalakrishna (Bengaluru, India), Dhrumilkumar Utpalbhai Shah (Bengaluru, India) and Purvi Shah (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reclamation of a portion of a cache memory in a cloud computing environment is described herein. A cache activeness signal is received from a cache broker. The cache activeness signal is representative of a usage...