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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stephen L. Blinick, Tucson, AZ (US);

Lawrence Y. Chiu, San Jose, CA (US);

Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;

Robert Haas, Rueschlikon, CH;

Yu-Cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);

Xiao-Yu Hu, Rueschlikon, CH;

Ioannis Koltsidas, Rueschlikon, CH;

Paul H. Muench, San Jose, CA (US);

Roman Pletka, Rueschlikon, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for managing cache memories includes providing a computerized system including a shared data storage system (CS) configured to interact with several local servers that serve applications using respective cache memories, and access data stored in the shared data storage system; providing cache data information from each of the local servers to the shared data storage system, the cache data information comprising cache hit data representative of cache hits of each of the local servers, and cache miss data representative of cache misses of each of the local servers; aggregating, at the shared data storage system, at least part of the cache hit and miss data received and providing the aggregated cache data information to one or more of the local servers; and at the local servers, updating respective one or more cache memories used to serve respective one or more applications based on the aggregated cache data information.


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