SK Hynix and Inha University Research and Business Foundation Assigned Patent

SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Korea, and Inha University Research and Business Foundation, Incheon, Korea, has been assigned a patent (12260104) developed by Lee; Dayoung, Incheon, Korea, and Song; Minseok, Seoul, Korea, for “data storage system including a data relocation circuit and a plurality of data storage devices and operation method Thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage system includes an interface circuit configured to receive a read request for a chunk of data; a disk array including a plurality of main disks and a plurality of sub disks; an input/output control circuit configured to read a chunk from the main disks according to the read request; a data mapping circuit configured to store mapping relations between logical addresses and physical addresses of chunks; and a data relocation control circuit configured to control relocation of chunks stored in the disk array. The data relocation control circuit is configured to control movement of a first chunk stored in a main disk in an overloaded state to a main disk in an underloaded state, and to control movement of a second chunk stored in a sub disk to a main disk which can accommodate a required bandwidth of the second chunk.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-06-19 (18/337377).