eBay Assigned Patent

eBay Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,163,450) developed by Rao, Vinay Pundalika, San Jose, CA, Lewis, Mark S., Pleasanton, CA, and Povzner, Anna, San Jose, CA, for a “data storage space recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Storage space is reclaimed by cleaning and compacting data objects where data objects are stored by immutable storage. A storage area of which space needs to be reclaimed is identified. Active and stale data objects stored in a storage area are identified, and only active data objects are transferred to a shadow storage area from the storage area when recovering storage space. I/O operations can be fulfilled from the storage area and the shadow storage area. Compaction requests and I/O requests are throttled according to QOS parameters. Recovery of storage space does not cause a failure to meet performance requirements for any storage volume.”

The patent application was filed on December 20, 2019 (16/722,501).