Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent
Reliably persisting storage writes at high speed
By Francis Pelletier | January 30, 2018 at 1:20 pmFuturewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,870,177) developed by Kampe, Mark Allan, Los Angeles, CA, Bahar, Cameron, Los Altos, CA, Liu, Jinshui, Plano, TX, Shao, Wesley, Cupertino, CA, and Liu, Huawei, Shenzhen, China, for a “system and method for reliably persisting storage writes at high speed.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for operating a device adapted to store information with high reliability includes determining a storage address for a data payload portion of a write request in accordance with a configuration of a communications interface coupled to the device, where the data payload is to be stored in mirroring groups of cache storage partitions of a plurality of cache storage modules. The method also includes generating a payload read request in accordance with the storage address, and prompting the communications interface to initiate the storing of the data payload, in parallel, in the mirroring groups in accordance with the payload read request.”
The patent application was filed on April 16, 2015 (14/688,718).