Storone Assigned Patent

Storone Ltd., Ra’anana, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,482,012) developed by Gordon, Raz, Hadera, Israel, for “storage system and method of operating thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosing a storage system, method of operating thereof and data structures usable for the operating. The method includes: accommodating a plurality of data structures informative of location of allocation chunks, each allocation chunk characterized by a predefined number K of available consecutive physical addresses, wherein the predefined number K is equal for all allocation chunks indicated by the same data structure and wherein there are at least two data structures informative of location of allocation chunks with a different predefined number K, identifying, prior to writing a data chunk, a data structure associated with respective logical group and informative of location of allocation chunks with the predefined number K equal to number M of consecutive physical addresses required for storing the data chunk, and allocating for the data chunk M consecutive physical addresses in accordance with the location of the allocation chunk, the location obtained from the identified data structure.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2015 (14/969,957).