ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,883, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and device for data storage" was invented by Yuqi Zhang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yanlong Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Lei Geng (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data storage includes determining an expected expiration time of a new data file based on attribute information of the new data file and recorded attribute information of data files, in response to creation of the new data file in a level of a Log-Structured Merge Tree (LSM-Tree). Additionally, a block set corresponding to the expected expir...