Open Invention Network Assigned Patent

Open Invention Network LLC, Durham, NC, has been assigned a patent (10,891,055) developed by Warfield, Andrew, Vancouver, Canada, Deegan, Timothy John, Fraser, Keir, Cambridge, Great Britain, Stodden, Daniel, and Jamieson, Kevin, Vancouver, Canada, for “methods, systems and devices relating to data storage interfaces for managing data address spaces in data storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers’ data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers, at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators, a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators, and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators, wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.”

The patent application was filed on April 23, 2019 (16/391,426).