Condusiv Assigned Patent
Selecting storage locations for storing data based on storage location attributes and data usage statistics
By Francis Pelletier | July 17, 2015 at 3:08 pmCondusiv Technologies Corp., Burbank, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,052,826) developed by Quan, Gary, La Cresenta, CA, Thomas, Basil, Sylmar, CA, and Jensen, Craig, Clearwater, FL, for a “selecting storage locations for storing data based on storage location attributes and data usage statistics.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for selecting physical storage locations for storing data are provided. A technique involves determining usage statistics associated with a logical block in a file system, selecting a physical storage location, of a plurality of physical storage locations, to assign to the logical block based on, (a) at least one attribute associated with the first physical storage location, and, (b) the usage statistics associated with the logical block, and causing the logical block to be assigned to the first physical storage location.“
The patent application was filed on January 4, 2011 (12/984,553).