ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,549, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Guizhou, China).

"Data storage apparatus and method of data management in the data storage apparatus" was invented by Yigal Korman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Amit Golander (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ben-Shahar Belkar (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data management in a data storage apparatus includes determining that a memory region (MR) stored in a first storage tier is suitable for hibernation. A tier-down operation is executed to move the MR to a second storage tier. In response to a remote direct memory access (RDMA) ...