NGD Systems Assigned Patent
In-storage on-demand data decompression
By Francis Pelletier | May 30, 2018 at 2:01 pmNGD Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,965,210) developed by Alves, Vladimir, Tustin, CA, for a “system and methods for in-storage on-demand data decompression.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and methods for in-storage on-demand data decompression. Compressed data are stored in a storage device connected to a host computer. When decompressed data are needed, the host computer sends a decompression command to the storage device indicating which data are to be decompressed, and instructing it how to decompress the data. The storage device decompresses the data and stores the decompressed data, making it available to the host.”
The patent application was filed on May 26, 2017 (15/607,314).