US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 11 for "Selective packing of small block write operations prior to compression" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,692, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Selective packing of small block write operations prior to compression" was invented by Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Mohammed Asher (Bangalore, India), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.) and Aamir Mohammed Vt (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selective packing of small block write operations is implemented prior to compression, to improve compression efficiency and hence reduce bandwidth requirements of a Remote Data Replication (RDR) facility. Compression characteristics of write IO operations are forecast, and write IO o...