Infinidat Assigned Patent
Compression control based on compression ratio estimation
By Francis Pelletier | January 14, 2020 at 2:13 pmInfinidat Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,521,399) developed by Ben-Tsion, Ido, Ness-Ziona, Israel, for a “compression control based on compression ratio estimation.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for controlling compression based on compression ratio, the method includes monitoring access requests related to a storage entity of a storage system, wherein the access requests are associated with multiple data units, evaluating a compression ratio related to the storage entity, wherein the evaluating comprises applying a first compression process on at least a subset of the multiple data units to provide first compressed data units, serving the access requests without storing, in a permanent storage layer of the storage system, the first compressed data units, and reacting, by the storage system, to the compression ratio.”
The patent application was filed on August 7, 2016 (15/230,454).