Patents by Inventor Raghu C. Mallena

Raghu C. Mallena 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).

  • Method and apparatus to improve buffer cache hit rate
    Patent number: 7249219
    Abstract: A network caching device includes primary storage and secondary storage. The network caching device creates a set of metafile entries, each of which contains metadata for a logical grouping of related objects cached by the network caching device, and uses the set of metafile entries to reduce accesses to the secondary storage in response to requests for the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: J Eric Mowat, Yee-Peng Wang, Carlos G. Maltzahn, Raghu C. Mallena