American Megatrends Assigned Patent

American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (8,984,011) developed by Chatterjee, Paresh, Fremont, CA, Subramanian, Srikumar, Newark, CA, and Sowrirajan, Raghavan, Fremont, CA, for a “page object caching for variably sized access control lists in data storage systems.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Technologies are described herein for caching variably sized access control lists, (ACLs) in a data storage system utilizing page object caching. A request to access a file is received. An inode number of the requested file is identified. A hash key based on the inode number and a predefined hash value is determined. A determination is made as to whether the hash key is contained in a hash list. In response to determining that the hash key is contained in the hash list, access to a page object in the memory is provided. The page object contains an access control list, (ACL) associated with the requested file. The ACL is retrieved from the page object.“

The patent application was filed on January 8, 2013 (13/736,305).