PrimaryIO Assigned Patent

PrimaryIO, Inc., San Carlos, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,740,410) developed by Mitra, Anand, Ranade, Dilip, Kumar, Sumit, and Kapoor, Sumit, Pune, India, for a “maximize IO throughput in hybrid storage solution.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: a hard disk drive input/output, (HDD I/O) optimizer configured to receive a primary input/output, (I/O) operation stream for a given cylinder in a permanent storage device, configured to schedule a secondary input/output, I/O) operation stream that is pending on the same given cylinder or that is pending on an adjacent cylinder that is adjacent to the given cylinder, and configured to allocate free space from the same given cylinder or from the adjacent cylinder for the secondary I/O operation stream that is pending.“

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2015 (14/660,935).