ITRI Assigned Patent

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,176,820) developed by Simha, Dilip Nijagal, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Chiueh, Tzi-Cker, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “disk logging method applicable to storage medium and electronic device, storage medium using the same and electronic device using the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure proposes a disk logging method configured for an electronic device comprising a temporary non-volatile storage medium to log data from a volatile memory to said first storage medium, and the method includes the elements of aggregating data from applications of the electronic device in a queue, transferring the aggregated data to a per device queue targeted toward a native queue of the storage medium, writing the data stored in the native queue of the storage medium into a disk platter of the storage medium, and transmitting an interrupt in response to the completion of the writing of the data to the disk platter, wherein the first batch size is dynamically adjusted such that the step of writing the data to the platter takes more time than the step of transferring the data from the per device queue to the native queue of the storage medium.“

The patent application was filed on November 15, 2013 (14/080,813).