President and Fellows of Harvard College Assigned Patent

President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, has been assigned a patent (11563803) developed by Idreos, Stratos, Chatterjee, Subarna, Jagadeesan, Meena, and Qin, Wilson, Cambridge, MA, for an “optimized self-designing key-value storage engine.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the invention utilize an optimized key-value storage engine to strike the optimal balance between cloud-cost and performance and supports queries, including updates, lookups, range queries, inserts, and read-modify-writes. Cloud cost is manifested in purchasing both storage and processing resources. The improved approach has the ability to self-design and instantiate holistic configurations given a workload, a cloud budget, and optionally performance goals and a set of Service Level Agreement (SLA) specifications. A configuration reflects an optimized storage engine design in terms of, for example, the individual data structures design (in-memory and on-disk) in the engine as well as their algorithms and interactions, a cloud provider, and the exact virtual machines to be used.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-11-10 (17/523112).