PrimaryIO Assigned Patent

PrimaryIO, Inc., San Carlos, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,146,437) developed by Kumar, Sumit, and Kapoor, Sumit, Pune, India, for a “tier aware caching solution to increase application performance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising: permitting an application to be aware to be aware of a distribution of a data of the application across a cache and a permanent storage device. The cache comprises a solid state device and the permanent storage device comprises a disk or a memory. In yet another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: a caching application program interface configured to permit an application to be aware to be aware of a distribution of a data of the application across a cache and a permanent storage device. A caching application program interface is configured to determine an input/output strategy to consume the data based on the distribution of the data.”

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2015 (14/660,931).