Ionir/Reduxio Systems Assigned Patent
Management of multi-tier storage
By Francis Pelletier | January 6, 2021 at 2:16 pmReduxio Systems Ltd., now Ionir Ltd., Tel-Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,860,217) developed by Peleg, Nir, and Sagi, Or, Tel-Aviv, Israel, for “system and method of management of multi-tier storage systems.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and a method of managing a plurality of storage tiers, may include: receiving a write-access request, including at least one data element for storage, a logical address associated with the data element and a tier identifier for a selected tier, computing a unique reference name based on the content of the data element, and associating the unique reference name with the logical address, using a global API to generate a first write-access command, that includes the unique reference name and the data element, customizing the write-access command according to an addressing scheme of the selected tier by a dedicated driver, to obtain at least one second write-access command, using the second write-access command to associate the unique reference name with at least one physical location on the selected tier, and storing the at least one data element at the associated at least one physical location.”
The patent application was filed on June 24, 2019 (16/449,615).