Patents by Inventor Gus Shaffer

Gus Shaffer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for updating data in a cache
    Patent number: 9519584
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system includes a cache having one or more memories and a cache manager. The cache manager is able to receive a request to write data to a first portion of the cache, write the data to the first portion of the cache, update a first map corresponding to the first portion of the cache, receive a request to read data from the first portion of the cache, read from a storage communicatively linked to the computing system data according to the first map, and update a second map corresponding to the first portion of the cache. The cache manager may also be able to write data to the storage according to the first map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Scott David Peterson, Gus Shaffer, Phillip Krueger