Synology Assigned Patent

Synology Incorporated, Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,715,447) developed by Lin, Yi-Chun, Tainan, Taiwan, and Chen, Hsuan-Ting, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “method for adaptively managing a solid state drive, and associated apparatus and associated computer program product.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for adaptively managing a solid state drive, SSD, an associated apparatus, and an associated computer program product are provided, where the method includes the steps of: monitoring whether any deletion event regarding a file system established on the SSD exists, to selectively update a deletion amount accumulation value, where the deletion amount accumulation value represents a total deleted data amount of at least one deletion event of the file system, and after the deletion amount accumulation value reaches a predetermined deletion amount accumulation threshold value, sending at least one TRIM command to the SSD, to allow the SSD to recycle reusable storage space by utilizing a garbage collection mechanism of the SSD.“

The patent application was filed on July 25, 2014 (14/340,575).