Alibaba Group Holding Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (10,037,152) developed by Li, Shu, Bothell, WA, for a “method and system of high-throughput high-capacity storage appliance with flash translation layer escalation and global optimization on raw NAND flash.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A programmable circuit coupled to a plurality of NAND Flashes performs one or more logic functions associated with storage operations performed on the plurality of NAND Flashes. A set of one or more processors perform one or more translations between one or more logical addresses and one or more physical addresses in response to a request to access the plurality of NAND Flashes. A communication interface coupled to the programmable circuit transfers data destined to or originating from the plurality of NAND Flashes.”

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2016 (15/383,046).