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Nimble Storage Assigned Patent

Direct mapping of data in storage system with flash cache

Nimble Storage, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,176,874) developed by Maheshwari, Umesh, San Jose, CA, for a “direct mapping of data in a storage system with a flash cache.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage device made up of multiple storage media is configured such that one such media serves as a cache for data stored on another of such media. The device includes a controller configured to manage the cache by consolidating information concerning obsolete data stored in the cache with information concerning data no longer desired to be stored in the cache, and erase segments of the cache containing one or more of the blocks of obsolete data and the blocks of data that are no longer desired to be stored in the cache to produce reclaimed segments of the cache.

The patent application was filed on June 25, 2015 (14/750,734).

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