Intelliflash by DDN Assigned Patent

Intelliflash by DDN, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,838,639) developed by Tripathi, Shailendra, and Garigala, Sreekanth, Fremont, CA, for an “intelligent redundant array of independent disks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A disclosed method for managing a RAID (redundant array of independent devices) file system memory comprises coalescing small read and write chunks into reasonably sized coalesced chunks up to 1 MB without any small size I/Os. The method also includes creating a new mapping layer configured to map the small size chunks in the coalesced chunks. The method additionally comprises flushing the coalesced chunks by allocating large chunks based on a chunk size coalescence or on a check point hit in terms of a SPA Sync. The method may also include applying a dynamic parity algorithm on the coalesced chunks to generate parities and data fragmented columns in reasonably big sized chunks. The method may yet include creating an appropriate coalesced chunk header to maintain the new mapping layer. The method may still comprise generating a chunked block pointer and a regular block pointer configured to co-exist in dual process threads.”

The patent application was filed on September 11, 2017 (15/700,912).