ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,804, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Data compaction method and device" was invented by Kun Xue (XiAn, China), Fei Dong (XiAn, China) and Yangxu Zhou (XiAn, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data compaction method that includes: determining, by an electronic device, a plurality of Sorted String Table (SSTable) files on which a compaction operation is to be performed among SSTable files stored in a storage device connected to the electronic device, the data in the SSTable files stored in the storage device is stored based on a Log Structured Merge Tree (LSM-Tr...