ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,458, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Flushing directly ingested user data" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Oran Baruch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Maor Rahamim (Ramla, Israel) and Kurt W. Everson (Richmond, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a flush request for a first block of user data directly stored into a physical block of non-volatile data storage, allocating a virtual layer block, and storing, in the virtual layer block, a first set of virtual block pointers indicating pages of the first block within the physical block. Poin...