Precise Software Assigned Patent
By Jean Jacques Maleval | September 25, 2014 at 2:50 pmPrecise Software Solutions, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,819,057) developed by four co-inventors for “dynamic storage blocks tiering.“
The co-inventors are Mark Kremer, Redwood City, CA, Yochai Uliel, Liad Hacmon, Yehuda, Israel, and Chuck Delouis, New York, NY.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Storage management for database access, in which selected data blocks are associated with particular business operations, and in which those data blocks are disposed in response to an assessment of which of those business operations are more important, more urgent, or have a greater need to be reliable. This has the effect that overall transaction performance is improved without increasing infrastructure cost. Noting the relative importance of those particular business transactions and the relative probability that those data blocks will be needed by those particular business transactions, and assuring that data blocks associated with relatively important business transactions are moved to relatively superior storage in advance of requests for access.”
The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2011 (13/012,555).