ASMedia Technology Assigned Patent
Storage device and management
By Francis Pelletier | May 13, 2021 at 2:30 pmASMedia Technology Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,990,521) developed by Hwang, Wei-Kan, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “data storage system, data storage device and management method thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A management method for a data storage device is provided and includes the following steps: obtaining a plurality of association rules according to a plurality of previous access commands, building a plurality of look-up tables according to the association rules, receiving a current access command and determining whether the current access command corresponds to at least one of the look-up tables to obtain physical addresses of the current access command from the corresponding look-up table, predicting a look-up table corresponding to a subsequent access command based on these association rules, and pre-establishing the predicted look-up tables. The invention also provides a data storage system and a data storage device, which can implement the management method described above.”
The patent application was filed on February 17, 2020 (Appl. No.16/792,857).