Patents by Inventor Jason Sylvain

Jason Sylvain 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).

  • Partial tag offloading for storage server victim cache
    Patent number: 7698506
    Abstract: A technique for partially offloading, from a main cache in a storage server, the storage of cache tags for data blocks in a victim cache of the storage server, is described. The technique includes storing, in the main cache, a first subset of the cache tag information for each of the data blocks, and storing, in a victim cache of the storage server, a second subset of the cache tag information for each of the data blocks. This technique avoids the need to store the second subset of the cache tag information in the main cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Fair, William P. McGovern, Thomas C. Holland, Jason Sylvain