US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 3 for "Automatic data replica manager in distributed caching and data processing systems" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,153, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Automatic data replica manager in distributed caching and data processing systems" was invented by Zhengyu Yang (San Diego), Jiayin Wang (Dorchester, Mass.) and Thomas David Evans (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data storage includes determining a latency distance from a primary node to each of two or more replica nodes, choosing a preferred replica node of the two or more replica nodes based on the determined latency distances, and write-caching data into the preferred replica node."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2...