Elastifile Assigned Patent
SSD with non-blocking flush command
By Francis Pelletier | May 7, 2018 at 2:09 pmElastifile Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,946,496) developed by Lotem, Eyal, Pardes Hanna, Israel, Meir, Avraham, Rishon LeZion, Israel, and Frank, Shahar, Ramat Hasharon, Israel, for a “SSD with non-blocking flush command.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computing system includes a storage device and a host. The storage device includes a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory, and is configured to receive data for storage in the non-volatile memory, to buffer at least some of the received data temporarily in the volatile memory, and to guarantee that any data, which is not part of a predefined amount of data that was most recently received, has been committed to the non-volatile memory. The host is configured to send the data for storage in the storage device, and, in response to a need to commit given data to the non-volatile memory, to send the given data to the storage device followed by at least the predefined amount of additional data.”
The patent application was filed on March 20, 2016 (15/075,157).