Microsoft Technology Licensing Assigned Patent

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, has been assigned a patent (10,078,455) developed by Narayanan, Iyswarya, State College, PA, Wang, Di, Redmond, WA, Jeon, Myeongjae, Seattle, WA, Sharma, Bikash, Redmond, WA, Caulfield, Laura Marie, Woodinville, WA, Govindan, Sriram, Redmond, WA, Cutler, Benjamin Franklin, Seattle, WA, Hoder, Christopher W., Sommerville, MA, Bobba, Jaya Naga Satish, Bellevue, WA, Liu, Jie, Medina, WA, and Khessib, Badriddine, Redmond, WA, for a “predicting solid state drive reliability.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for predicting solid state drive reliability. Aspects of the invention can be used to predict and/or to configure a data center to minimize one or more of: SSD capacity degradation, (how much storage an SSD has left), SSD performance degradation, (reduced read/write latency/throughput), and SSD failure. Models and data center considerations can be based on device level SSD related operations, such as, for example, read, write, erase. Operations decisions can be made for a data center based on SSD specific features, such as, for example, remaining capacity, write amplification factor, etc. Dependence and/or causality of various different data center factors can be leveraged. The impact of the various data center factors on different SSD failure modes and capacity/performance degradation can be quantified to drive SSD design, SSD provisioning, and SSD operations.”

The patent application was filed on January 20, 2016 (15/002,216).