OmniTier Storage Assigned Patent

OmniTier Storage, Inc., Milpitas, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,303,382) developed by Chu, Derrick Preston, Santa Clara, CA, Indupuru, Suneel, Cupertino, CA, and Ng, Daryl, San Jose, CA, for an “application defined storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Data to be stored is received from an application. A first type of storage, having a first set of storage properties, and a second type of storage, having a second set of storage properties, are selected from based on an access characteristic associated with the data, the first set of storage properties, and the second set of storage properties. The data is stored in the selected type of storage.”

The patent application was filed on January 17, 2017 (15/407,487).