ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,171, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Adjusting garbage collection based on input/output flow rates" was invented by Micah Robison (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: monitoring performance in NVRAM having a plurality of memory blocks. Moreover, a change in the flow rate of I/O requests received at the NVRAM is identified as a result of the monitoring. In response to identifying the change is a...