Memblaze Technology Assigned Patent
ZNS standard based storage device providing data compression and method
By Francis Pelletier | March 18, 2025 at 2:00 pmBeijing Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (12248404) developed by Yuan; Rong, Beijing, China, for “ZNS standard based storage device providing data compression and method thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Provided are ZNS standard based storage device providing data compression and method thereof. A provided method for processing an Input/Output (IO) command includes: providing, by a host to a storage device, a first command for writing data to a first storage zone; allocating, by the storage device according to a Write Pointer (WP) of the first storage zone, a first logical address index to the data to be written by the first command, wherein the first logical address index and a first size of the data to be written by the first command define a first logical address space; compressing the data to be written by the first command to obtain compressed data; storing the compressed data; recording an address for storing the compressed data in association with the first logical address index; providing the first logical address index to the host; and recording, by the host, a first host logical address (HLBA) accessed by the first command in association with the first logical address index.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-12-29 (17/646311).