ScaleFlux Assigned Patent

ScaleFlux, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,858,008) developed by Liu, Yang, Milpitas, CA, Zhong, Hao, Los Gatos, CA, Sun, Fei, Irvine, CA, and Zhang, Tong, Watervliet, NY, for a “method to reduce flash memory IOs with host maintained address mapping table.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system, method and program product for transferring contiguous blocks of data between a host storage and a flash memory. A method is disclosed that includes: receiving from a host at a flash controller a host command that specifies a contiguous set of LBAs and specifies a corresponding sub-section of an LBA to PBA mapping table, fetching the sub-section of the LBA to PBA mapping table from the host and storing the sub-section in a sub-mapping table, and for each LBA in the contiguous set of LBAs, performing a look-up into the sub-mapping table to retrieve a corresponding PBA and using the corresponding PBA to effectuate a data transfer between the host and flash memory from the flash controller.”

The patent application was filed on October 21, 2015 (14/919,361)