QLogic Assigned Patent

QLogic Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,918,593), developed by Khandai Biswajit, Foothill Ranch, CA, and Grijalva Oscar L., Cypress, CA, for a “method and system for memory management .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A single-ported memory for storing information and only accessible to a plurality of clients, and a dual-ported memory for storing links and accessible to the plurality of clients and to a list manager that maintains a data structure for allocating memory blocks from the first memory and the second memory to the plurality of clients. The dual-ported memory is accessible to both the plurality of clients and the list manager. A method includes receiving a request from a client for access to memory storage at the single-ported memory and the dual-ported memory, and allocating a block of the single-ported memory to the client and a block of the dual-ported memory to the client. After the client has used the memory storage, the allocated block of the single-ported memory and the dual-ported memory are released to a free list data structure used by the list manager to assign storage.“

The patent application was filed on September 25, 2013 (14/036,920)