Infinidat Assigned Patent

Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,542,318) developed by Goldberg, Alex, Rehovot, Israel, for a “temporary cache memory eviction.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for managing a cache memory of a storage system, the method may include storing a first retrieval metadata of a first data that is cached in the cache memory, in response to an expected or an actual occurrence of a cache memory consuming event, wherein the cache memory consuming event involves storing second data in the cache memory for a second caching period, replacing, in the cache memory, the first data by the second data, wherein the second caching period is a fraction of a first caching period associated with the first data, and evicting the second data from the cache memory and retrieving the first data to the cache memory in response to an actual or estimated end of the cache memory consuming event, wherein the retrieving of the first data involves retrieving the first data from a storage unit that differs from the cache memory while using the first retrieval metadata.“

The patent application was filed on January 22, 2015 (14/602,374).