Patent ID: 11899585
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The client device of claim 1, wherein the kernel is further configured to:
receive, via the network interface, a write request to store data in the distributed cache from a different client device on the network;
determine whether data corresponding to the write request is stored in the shared cache of the at least one memory; and
in response to determining that the data corresponding to the write request is stored in the shared cache:
update the data stored in the shared cache based on the write request without accessing the user space of the at least one memory; and
send the updated data via the network interface to a storage device on the network to update the data at the storage device without accessing the user space of the at least one memory.