US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "Data storage system employing green storage tier for energy savings" (Montana, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,863, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data storage system employing green storage tier for energy savings" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.) and Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage system is operated for reduced power consumption, including regularly scanning usage patterns of data stored on a set of production storage devices to identify cold data whose usage is below a predetermined usage threshold, and adding the cold data of each scan to a collection of cold data. The production storage devices are operated in a normal p...