US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 14 for "Enhanced caching operations based on a coherency metric" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,898, issued on July 14, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced caching operations based on a coherency metric" was invented by Shirish Phatak (Bedminster, N.J.), Vaishnav Kumar Kovvuri (San Jose, Calif.) and Sunil Sadashivan Nair (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global policy-driven framework for managing, revising, and implementing data coherency policies in a distributed data storage system. An edge node of the distributed data storage system receives a request from an application to store a data object in the system. The edge node, in response to receiving the request to store the data object, gen...