Sony Interactive Entertainment Assigned Patent

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11954328) developed by Aoki, Keiichi, and Takahashi, Masaki, Tokyo, Japan, for “storage management device, storage management method, and program.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-07-20 (17/626621).