Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Dankook University Assigned Patent

Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea, has been assigned a patent (12079195) developed by Choi; Jong Moo, and Oh; Myung Hoon, Gyeonggi-do, KoreaChoi; Jong Moo, and Oh; Myung Hoon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, for “apparatus and method for storing file of key value store on zoned storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus for storing a key value store file according to an embodiment includes a memory configured to record one or more key values in a predefined unit space based on a data input request from an outside, a controller configured to store data received from the memory in a storage, and the storage configured to include a plurality of zones. The controller is configured to perform a flush operation of storing one or more key values received from the memory as a file in a predefined format in the storage and a compaction operation of merging a plurality of files existing in one level in the storage and recording the merged files as one file in another level.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-07-21 (17/869908).