US Patent Issued to NetApp on Nov. 18 for "Combining data block I/O and checksum block I/O into a single I/O operation during processing by a storage stack" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,851, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Combining data block I/O and checksum block I/O into a single I/O operation during processing by a storage stack" was invented by James Alastair Taylor (Livermore, Calif.) and Suhas Girish Urkude (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for combining data block and checksum block I/O into a single I/O operation. Many storage systems utilize checksums to verify the integrity of data blocks stored within storage devices managed by a storage stack. However, when a storage system reads a data block from a storage device, a correspond...