ScaleFlux Assigned Patent
In-memory data compression complementary to host data compression
By Francis Pelletier | December 27, 2017 at 2:34 pmScaleFlux, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,836,248) developed by Zhang, Tong, Watervliet, NY, Zhong, Hao, Los Gatos, CA, Sun, Fei, Irvine, CA, and Liu, Yang, Milpitas, CA, for an “in-memory data compression complementary to host data compression.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage infrastructure, device and associated method for storing compressed data is provided. Included is a method for compressing data on a storage device in a storage infrastructure, including: receiving a compressed extent from a host, wherein the compressed extent includes data compressed with entropy-coding-less data compression, receiving logical identification information about the compressed extent from the host, performing in-memory entropy encoding on the compressed extent to generate a compressed unit, storing the compressed unit in a physical memory, and in a case where the host is aware of the in-memory entropy encoding, reporting size information of the compressed unit back the host.”
The patent application was filed on October 29, 2015 (14/926,172)
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