ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,062, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Write-back caching across clusters" was invented by Dipankar Roy (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computing device for write-back caching. A client write request to write new data to a selected file on a volume (for which the client has mounted the corresponding cache) may be received at a network module of a node and processed to generate a write request that can be forwarded to a disk module hosting the cache (at a same or different node than received the client write request). The data is written to the cache and confirmation of t...