Microsoft Assigned Patent

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,812,770) developed by four co-inventors for “health reporting from non-volatile block storage device to processing device.”

The co-inventors are Nathan Steven Obr, Bellevue, WA, Vladimir Sadovsky, James C. Bovee, and Robin A. Alexander, Redmond, WA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and devices are provided for adapting an I/O pattern, with respect to a processing device using a non-volatile block storage device based on feedback from the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include information indicating a status of the non-volatile block storage device. In response to receiving the feedback, a storage subsystem, included in an OS executing on processing device, may change a behavior with respect to the non-volatile block storage device in order to ,id, or reduce, a negative impact to the non-volatile block storage device or to enhance an aspect of the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include performance information and/or operating environmental information of the non-volatile block storage device. When the non-volatile block storage device is not capable of providing the feedback, the processing device may request information about the non-volatile block storage device from a database service.”

The patent application was filed on July 13, 209 (12/501,562).