ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,990, issued on March 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Tier-specific data compression" was invented by Richard V. Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Xiyan Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Abhinav Chakravarty (San Jose, Calif.) and Joern Engel (Mountain View, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product for tier-specific data compression, comprising comparing costs associated with a plurality of storage configurations for storing data based on one or more usage characteristics of data, wherein each storage configuration of the plurality of storage configurations corresponds to a par...