Patent 7330938 was granted and assigned to SAP on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
System and method for a hybrid-cache. Data received from a data source is cached within a static cache as stable data. The static cache is a cache having a fixed size. Portions of the stable data within the static cache are evicted to a dynamic cache when the static cache becomes full. The dynamic cache is a cache having a dynamic size. The evicted portions of the stable cache are enrolled into the dynamic cache as soft data.