Fusion-io Assigned Patent

Fusion-io Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, has been assigned a patent (8,671,249) developed by Nisha Talagala, Livermore, CA, and James Peterson, San Jose, CA, for an “apparatus, system, and method for managing storage capacity recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing storage capacity recovery. A monitor module determines a workload write bandwidth for a sequential log-based data storage device. The workload write bandwidth includes a rate at which workload write operations generate reclaimable storage capacity on the data storage device. A target module determines a target reclamation write bandwidth for the data storage device. A capacity reclaim rate is associated with the target reclamation write bandwidth. The capacity reclaim rate satisfies the workload write bandwidth for the data storage device. A reclaim rate module determines a prospective reclamation write bandwidth for the data storage device, based on the workload write bandwidth, to correspond to the capacity reclaim rate associated with the target reclamation write bandwidth.”

The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2011 (13/267,811).