NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent

NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, has been assigned a patent (8,375,164) developed by Cristian Ungureanu, Princeton, NJ, for a "content addressable storage with reduced latency."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for storing data in a content-addressable system is provided. The system includes a content-addressable storage system and a persistent cache. The persistent cache includes a temporary address generator that is configured to generate a temporary address which is associated with data to be stored in the persistent cache, and a non-content-addressable storage system configured to store and retrieve data in the persistent cache using the temporary address. The persistent cache further comprises an address translator configured to map a temporary address associated with the data in the non-content addressable storage system with a content address associated with the data in the content-addressable storage system."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 15, 2010 (12/905,223).