Qnap Assigned Patent

Qnap Systems Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,055,140) developed by Hsu, Han-Nung, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for automated storage tiering.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, a system, and a computer-readable recording medium for automated storage tiering are provided. A temperature level of each data block in all data storage devices with different tier levels is calculated based on its usage level and usage history so as to accordingly calculate a total amount of preserved storage space for all the data storage devices. Next, a storage space of each of the data storage devices is divided into a preserved storage space and a non-preserved storage space according to the total amount of the preserved storage space and a storage capacity of the corresponding data storage device. Each of the data blocks is migrated to the non-preserved storage space in the corresponding data storage device according to its temperature and the tier level of each of the data storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2016 (15/242,612).