US Patent Issued to Lemon on April 22 for "Adaptive mapping for transparent block device level compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,655, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Adaptive mapping for transparent block device level compression" was invented by Ping Zhou (Los Angeles), Longxiao Li (Los Angeles), Peng Xu (Los Angeles), Kan Frankie Fan (Los Angeles), Chaohong Hu (Los Angeles), Fei Liu (Los Angeles), Hui Zhang (Los Angeles) and Di Xu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive mapping for data compression includes determining an input/output (I/O) request pattern, dynamically switching between a segment mapping mode and a flat hash table mapping mode based on the determined I/O request pattern...