US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 28 for "Method, electronic device, and program product for reclaiming storage space" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,686, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, electronic device, and program product for reclaiming storage space" was invented by Shuangshuang Liang (Zunyi, China), Chaojun Zhao (Chengdu, China) and Yang Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a program product for reclaiming a storage space. The method includes: determining the number of a plurality of blocks to be merged into one block based on a space usage of a storage system; selecting a block combination for merging from a plurality of partial...