American Megatrends Assigned Patent

American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (10,055,354) developed by Chatterjee, Paresh, Fremont, CA, Subramanian, Srikumar, Suwanee, GA, Ganapathy, Narayanaswami, Newark, CA, and Mallavaram, Venugopalreddy, Duluth, GA, for “systems, devices and methods using a solid state device as a caching medium with a hashing algorithm to maintain sibling proximity.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for managing a caching medium for a storage system includes providing an SSD cache including a plurality of cache lines, providing a data structure including a plurality of buckets for managing the SSD cache, and providing a plurality of cache headers for managing the cache lines. Each cache line has a first predetermined size, and each bucket corresponds to a contiguous region of a physical storage capacity having a second predetermined size. Each cache header associates a cache line and a corresponding data block stored in the data storage system. The method also includes assigning two or more cache headers for cache lines associated with corresponding data blocks stored in a same contiguous region of the physical storage capacity to a same bucket, and maintaining the two or more cache headers as a first group of cache headers within the same bucket.”

The patent application was filed on May 4, 2016 (15/145,874).