Infinidat Assigned Patent

Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,189,407) developed by Zeidner, Efraim, Haifa, Israel, and Corry, Leo, Ramat Gan, Israel, for a “pre-fetching in a storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a method of pre-fetching. The method may include determining, by a pre-fetch module of the storage system, to fetch a certain data portion from a data storage device of the storage system to a cache memory of the storage system, wherein the certain data portion belongs to a certain statistical segment that belongs to at least one logical volume, determining, by a pre-fetch module of the storage system, to pre-fetch at least one additional data portion to the cache memory based upon input/output, (I/O) activity statistics associated with the certain statistical segment, wherein the I/O activity statistics comprises timing information related to I/O activities, fetching the certain data portion, and pre-fetching the at least one additional data portion if it is determined to pre-fetch the at least one additional data portions.“

The patent application was filed on February 23, 2012 (13/403,015).