ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,693, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Processing pages marked for deletion" was invented by Ashok Tamilarasan (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Pavan Kumar Vutukuri (Chelmsford, Mass.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Philippe Armangau (Acton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for managing a mapping structure in a data storage system includes identifying levels in the mapping structure of pages to be removed and estimating the workload required for removing the pages based at least in part on the identified levels. The technique further includes initiating processing of the pages...