ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,163, issued on May 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Die-aware scheduler" was invented by Svitlana Tumanova (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Troxell III (Southlake, Texas) and Ying Gao (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A die-aware scheduler that has a hierarchical queue is suitable for use in data storage systems. The hierarchical queue includes a priority queue, a die queue, a write queue and a power token queue, and may also include an admission queue. The die queue, the write queue and the power token queue have a width and lanes corresponding to dies in solid-state storage. The hierarchy...