Avalanche Technology Assigned Two Patents

Method of LUN management in SSD array
Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,954,658) developed by Asnaashari, Mehdi, Danville, CA, Nemazie, Siamack, Los Altos Hills, CA, and Shah, Ruchirkumar D., San Jose, CA, for a “method of LUN management in a solid state disk array.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of managing logical unit numbers, LUNs) in a storage system includes identifying one or more LUN logical block address, LBA)-groups being affected. The one or more LUN LBA-groups defining a LUN. The method further determining the existence of an association of each of the affected LUN LBA-groups to a portion of a storage pool and maintaining a mapping table to track the association of the LUN LBA-groups to the storage pool.“

The patent application was filed on November 26, 2013 (14/090,910).

Storage processor managing SSD array
Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,954,657) developed by Asnaashari, Mehdi, Danville, CA, and Nemazie, Siamack, Los Altos Hills, CA, for a “storage processor managing solid state disk array.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of writing to one or more solid state disks, SSDs) employed by a storage processor includes receiving a command, creating sub-commands from the command based on a granularity, and assigning the sub-commands to the SSDs independently of the command thereby causing stripping across the SSDs.“

The patent application was filed on September 27, 2013 (14/040,280).