ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,109, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Optimizing data storage with access windows" was invented by Konstantinos Nikoloudakis (San Francisco), Sven Koehler (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Danyao Wang (Kitchener, Canada), Sahand Saba (Kitchener, Canada), Long Fei (Campbell, Calif.), Simon Tyler Wise (New Hamburg, Canada) and David Halladay Schneider (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reclaiming storage space in a storage environment. In one aspect, the method includes actions of aggregating da...