ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,472, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"End-of-life data page processing" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing end-of-life processing of data blocks includes performing a decref procedure for a chunk of data, the decref procedure decrementing reference counts for respective blocks of the chunk of data, and deferring performance of an end-of-life procedure for a plurality of blocks of the chunk of data whose reference counts become zero as a result of perfo...