ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,216, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Systems and methods for tier management in memory-tiering environments" was invented by Ramzi Ammari (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mukesh Garg (Stanford, Calif.), Praveen Krishnamoorthy (Fremont, Calif.) and Changho Choi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tier management in memory-tiering environments. In some embodiments, a method includes accessing, by a first process, a first page of the first process in a first tier of a non-uniform memory access memory; and locking, by a first thread, the first page against...