Violin Memory Assigned Patent

Violin Memory Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,170,757) developed by Shihadeh, Elias, Cupertino, CA, and Mandapuram, Anil, San Jose, CA, for a “optimization of raid group storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of operating a memory system to compress data efficiently is described. The user data and the associated metadata are separated so that user data having repeating data patterns of greater length than a single user data structure may be assembled for storage. The user metadata and the repeating pattern metadata are stored in non-volatile memory such that the repeating pattern metadata can be used to reconstruct the repeating pattern of individual user data blocks. The reconstructed user data blocks are combined with user metadata, if any, and returned to the user in response to a read request.“

The patent application was filed on June 6, 2013 (13/911,632).