Fusion-io (SanDisk) Assigned Patent

Fusion-io, LLC, Wilmington, DE, a SanDisk company, has been assigned a patent (8,984,216) developed by Fillingim, Jeremy, Salt Lake City, UT, for an “apparatus, system, and method for managing lifetime of a storage device .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for managing lifetime for a data storage device. A target module determines a write bandwidth target for a data storage device. An audit module monitors write bandwidth of the data storage device relative to the write bandwidth target. A throttle module adjusts execution of one or more write operations on the data storage device in response to the write bandwidth of the data storage device failing to satisfy the write bandwidth target.“

The patent application was filed on October 13, 2011 (13/272,964).