US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Converting DIX to DIF using HMB buffer management" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,079, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Converting DIX to DIF using HMB buffer management" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identical address mapping for data and metadata can be used to support either data integrity extension (DIX) format or data integrity field (DIF) format. To do so, the data storage device is responsible for generating and maintaining scatter gather lists (SGLs). The data storage device can maintain either a DIX format or a DIF format in a host memory buffer (HMB) and then convert from DIX...