US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on July 15 for "Heat score-based tiering of data between different storage tiers of a file system" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,960, issued on July 15, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Heat score-based tiering of data between different storage tiers of a file system" was invented by Simarjot Kaur (Redmond, Wash.), Max Laier (Seattle), Dhanashri Parasharam Patil (Lynnwood, Wash.), Mayank Rajawat (Issaquah, Wash.), Anton Rang (Houlton, Wis.) and Chris Stacey (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards maintaining a heat score per file based on a file's access/activity level, and using the heat score to re-tier files from faster to slower storage and vice-versa. Files on a slower tier that ...