Alibaba Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (11947821) developed by Gu, Yongbin, Li, Pengcheng, Zhang, Tao, and Xie, Yuan, San Mateo, CA, for “methods and systems for managing an accelerator’s primary storage unit.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing a primary storage unit of an accelerator. The methods include assessing activity of the accelerator, assigning, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a lease to a group of one or more pages of data on the primary storage unit, wherein the assigned lease indicates a lease duration, and marking, in response to the expiration of the lease duration indicated by the lease, the group of one or more pages of data as an eviction candidate.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-06-15 (16/901436).