Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11644988) developed by Horev, Alon, Yellin, Ido, Levy, Asaf, and Turin, Alex, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “resource allocation in a storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for resource allocation in a storage system, the method may include determining to reduce a load imposed on a compute core of the storage system, wherein the compute core is responsible for executing (a) one or more background task shards, and (b) at least one non-sharded task for responding to an input/output (I/O) request sent to the storage system, and reducing the load imposed on the compute core by reallocating at least one background task shard of the one or more background task shards to another compute core of the storage system.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-06-16 (17/304241).