ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,312, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Storage operations based on enhanced contiguity awareness" was invented by Travis Ian Callahan (Apex, N.C.) and Jian Hu (Apex, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved write allocation in data storage systems is described. A data storage system controller determines a contiguity score for an allocation area on drives of the data storage system. The contiguity score for the allocation area is determined based on an evaluation of the contiguity of physical storage blocks mapped to the allocation area. A contiguity score is then determined for a secondary allocat...