NGD Systems Assigned Patent

NGD Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,753,661) developed by Alcantara, Joao, Irvine, CA, Cassia, Ricardo, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, Lazo, Vincent, San Diego, CA, and Souri, Kamyar, San Jose, CA, for a “power efficient method and system for executing host data processing tasks during data retention operations in a storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for combining the execution of a query with other operations, such as a data retention scan, in a storage device, when the execution of the query is not time-sensitive. The storage device may be connected to a host, and may operate during intervals of time in a power save mode. When a query is received by the host that is not time-sensitive, the query may be stored in the host or in the storage device until such time as the device would otherwise return to a normal operating mode, and then the query may be executed. Such delayed execution may enable the sharing of read operations for the query with read operations used, for example, for the execution of other queries or for a data retention scan.“

The patent application was filed on September 8, 2016 (15/260,188).