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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 26, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Junfeng Dong, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ajay Kalhan, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael E. Habben, Sammamish, WA (US);
John M. Oslake, Seattle, WA (US);
Preetham Melavarige Gopalakrishna, Bengaluru, IN;
Dhrumilkumar Utpalbhai Shah, Bengaluru, IN;
Purvi Shah, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Reclamation of a portion of a cache memory in a cloud computing environment is described herein. A cache activeness signal is received from a cache broker. The cache activeness signal is representative of a usage of a first set of cache entries of the cache memory by a first group of computing nodes in a cluster of nodes. A determination to reclaim a portion of the first set of cache entries or of a second set of cache entries is made based at least on the cache activeness signal. The second set of cache entries are utilized by a second group of computing nodes in the cluster of nodes. The determined portion of memory is reclaimed. In an aspect, the cache broker determines a usage of the set of cache entries by the first group of computing nodes and generates the cache activeness signal representative of the determined usage.