Violin Systems Assigned Patent

Violin Systems LLC, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,346,045) developed by Garg, Amit, Cupertino, CA, Stoakes, Timothy, One Tree Hill, Australia, and Ratna, Vikas, Fremont, CA, for “system and method for granular deduplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of managing a memory system is described, the memory system having a processor with a client interface, a buffer memory, and a storage memory. A LUN, (logical unit) is exposed to the client, the LUN having a memory size, and QoS specification. When the processor receives a command from the client to write data to the LUN, determining if the QoS specification includes deduplication and: if the QoS does not include deduplication, processing the command by storing the data in the storage memory and creating metadata uniquely referencing a storage location of the data that is written, or if the QoS includes deduplication, determine if deduplication is possible while meeting a latency value as specified in the QoS specification and performing deduplication.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2017 (15/616,373).