Intelligent Intellectual Property Assigned Patent

Intelligent Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC, Wilmington, DE, has been assigned a patent (8,996,807) developed by Joshi, Vikram, Los Gatos, CA, Luan, Yang, San Jose, CA, Brown, Michael F., Campbell, CA, and Vidwans, Hrishikesh A., San Jose, CA, for a “systems and methods for a multi-level cache.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A multi-level cache comprises a plurality of cache levels, each configured to cache I/O request data pertaining to I/O requests of a different respective type and/or granularity. A cache device manager may allocate cache storage space to each of the cache levels. Each cache level maintains respective cache metadata that associates I/O request data with respective cache address. The cache levels monitor I/O requests within a storage stack, apply selection criteria to identify cacheable I/O requests, and service cacheable I/O requests using the cache storage device.“

The patent application was filed on November 2, 2011 (13/288,005).