NEC Assigned Patent

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,448,923) developed by Sakamoto, Yuu, Tokyo, Japan, for a “information processing device for synchronizing update information between a solid state drive and a backup storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An information processing device includes: an SSD storage controlling unit for storing a physical address of a storage region of data stored in an SSD and a number of updates of the storage region, as SSD update information into the SSD, a backup storage controlling unit for storing copy data of the data stored in the SSD, and copy update information obtained by copying the SSD update information, in association with each other into a backup storage part, an acquiring unit for acquiring the copy update information corresponding to data associated with the SSD update information acquired from the SSD, from the backup storage part, and a deciding unit for deciding the data to be stored into the backup storage part based on the acquired SSD update information and the acquired copy update information.“

The patent application was filed on December 9, 2013 (14/100,181).