Sony Interactive Entertainment Assigned Patent

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, San Mateo, CA, has been assigned a patent (11736741) developed by Colenbrander, Roelof, Pajaro, Cliff, and Low, Kim-Huei, San Mateo, CA, for a “ultra high-speed low-latency network storage ultra high-speed low-latency network storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) is used to stream video, computer games, and the like to client devices from network storage embodied by solid state storage devices (SSDs). To provide for redundancy, multiple copies of a single piece of content, e.g., a computer game or video file, are stored on multiple SSDs. To provide information to address the block-level storage based on a client demand for the content, a data structure correlates each content with the SSDs and related block numbers at which the content is stored. Sourcing of the content as it is being streamed may be dynamically switched between SSDs to provide for load balancing or loss of a SSD.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-27 (17/242203).