Graid Technology Assigned Patent
Direct memory access data path for RAID
By Francis Pelletier | July 3, 2023 at 2:00 pmGraid Technology Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11662955) developed by Tseng, Guo-Fu, New Taipei, Taiwan, Yu, Tsung-Lin, Luodong, Taiwan, and Chang, Cheng-Yue, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “direct memory access data path for RAID storage.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Direct memory access data path for RAID storage is disclosed, including: receiving, at a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) controller, a request to write data to be distributed among a plurality of storage devices, computing parity information based at least in part on the data associated with the request, causing the parity information to be stored on a first subset of the plurality of storage devices, and causing the data associated with the request to be stored on a second subset of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the plurality of storage devices is configured to obtain the data associated with the request directly from a memory that is remote to the RAID controller, and wherein the data associated with the request does not pass through the RAID controller.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-09-27 (17/486643).