ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,170, issued on June 17, was assigned to Klara Systems (Hamilton, Canada).
"Tiered storage" was invented by Allan Charles Wyatt Jude (Hamilton, Canada) and Sabina Munteanu (Tielt-Winge, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to store data in tiered storage includes receiving for data stores to be stored on the tiered storage. The tiered storage may include multiple storage tiers, each storage tier having a different performance level. Each policy defines a default storage tier for the corresponding data store that has the policy. The method includes storing the data stores on the tiered storage as blocks. Each of the blocks i...