Research Institute of Tsinghua University Assigned Patent

Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (10,810,169) developed by Chung, Yeh-Ching, Zhang, Lidong, Shenzhen, China, and Wu, Yongwei, Beijing, China, for “hybrid file system architecture, file storage, dynamic migration, and application thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided are a hybrid distributed file system architecture structure, an applied file storage processing method, a dynamic migration method, and application thereof. The file storage processing method comprises: acquiring storage attributes of a file to be stored, wherein the storage attributes at least include a size of the file, determining, according to a pre-configured storage rule and the attributes of the file to be stored, in which distributed file system the file to be stored is stored, and storing the file to be stored in the determined distributed file system. The method further comprises migrating, according to a predetermined policy, a file that has been stored in a predetermined storage location. The device intelligently selects a file underlying storage policy according to file feature attributes to decide whether to migrate the file and to which file system the file is migrated so as to satisfy usage equalization of different file systems and also minimize performance degradation. By means of experimental comparison, it is concluded that the present disclosure can greatly improve comprehensive file performances such as I/O performance and the usage equalization of the file system.”

The patent application was filed on March 27, 2020 (16/831,964).