UAEU professor gets UK patent for new data transfer method

Al Ain: An efficient and energy-saving method of computer data transfer, developed at the UAE University (UAEU), has secured an intellectual property patent from the UK, announced the university.

This method is based on an improved method of transferring information between the computer and its memory. It accelerates the transfer of data inside a computer as well as reducing the energy that the computer requires during the download or transfer process, said Dr Azam Beg, the developer.

“The main concept of this invention is to create a mechanism to facilitate and simplify the information and data transfer from computer memory to the computer itself in a quick manner and with less energy,” said Dr Beg who is an associate professor at the College of Information (CIT) Technology at the UAEU.

He said it was known that the computer depends on the application’s execution speed to transfer data from memory to the computer and in order to expedite this process. “We save part of the data in the cache memory… in an intelligent way... which thus reduces the need of data replacement in the cache in order to assist in saving energy and increasing computer efficiency and applications execution speed,” he explained.

Dr Beg, who has been working with the UAEU since 2005, said that a lot of hard work and dedication was went into achieving this result. The achievement would have been impossible without the support of his faculty members and researchers.

Professor Sameer Bataineh, acting dean of the CIT, said the UAEU’s mission is to be one of the top international research universities. “We at the CIT try to provide a study and research environment equivalent to the highest international standards for our students and faculty members in order to equip the leaders of tomorrow with the required expertise in the field of technology.”