Smart IOPS Assigned Patent

Smart IOPS, Inc., Milpitas, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,394,474) developed by d’Abreu, Manuel Antonio, El Dorado Hills, CA, and Das, Ashutosh Kumar, Cupertino, CA, for “devices, systems, and methods for reconfiguring storage devices with applications.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Devices, systems, and methods are provided for dynamically reconfiguring storage devices with applications in real-time to meet user needs, such as running different applications. The devices, systems, and methods relate to a storage device that includes memory for data storage and a controller for storing data in the memory. The controller includes a processor configured to receive an indication to reconfigure the controller with an application that is user-selected, receive the application, reconfigure the controller with the application such that the controller is enabled to run the application, receive an indication to run the application with a set of data as input, receive the set of data, run the application with the set of data as input, and generate resulting data from running the application with the set of data as input.”

The patent application was filed on November 10, 2017 (15/810,001).