ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,627, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Transparent block device compression using hash-table" was invented by Ping Zhou (Los Angleles, Calif.), Chaohong Hu (Los Angeles), Kan Frankie Fan (Los Angeles), Fei Liu (Los Angeles), Longxiao Li (Los Angeles) and Hui Zhang (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for accessing block storage devices are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive a write request including an uncompressed data and an uncompressed block address associated with the uncompressed data, generate compressed data by compressing the uncomp...