NxGn Data Assigned Patent

NxGn Data, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (US8838936 B1) developed by two co-inventors, Nader Salessi, Laguna Niguel, CA, Joao Alcantara, Irvine, CA, for “system and method for efficient flash translation layer.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of maintaining and updating a logical-to-physical (LtoP) table in a storage device including a processor, a volatile memory, and a non-volatile memory, the storage device being in communication with a host, the method including receiving, by the processor, data for storing at a physical address in the non-volatile memory, the data being associated with a logical address of the host, storing, by the processor, the physical address in a first LtoP zone of a plurality of LtoP zones of the LtoP table, the LtoP table being stored in the volatile memory, adding, by the processor, the first LtoP zone to a list of modified zones, and storing, by the processor, a second LtoP zone of the plurality of LtoP zones in the non-volatile memory when a size of the list of modified zones exceeds a threshold.“

The patent application was filed on November 27, 2013 (14/092,817)