Yadro International Assigned Patent

Yadro International Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus, has been assigned a patent (10,310,995) developed by Malygin, Mikhail, Trusov, Maxim, Gutsalov, Nikita, Andreyev, Ivan, Tchoub, Ivan, St. Petersburg, Russia, Sigaev, Alexey, and Ikoev, Artem, Moscow, Russia, for “arbitration control system and method for storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage system, including a host server having storage processors, a PCIe fabric, and a GbE fabric, and two or more data storage modules having a bank of DRAM, long-term storage drives, a host interface, including a PCIe interface and a GBE interface, an application specific integrated circuit connected to the host interface, the storage drives, and the DRAM, and a battery, the battery providing power to the DRAM and SSDs in an event of failure of a main power supply. Data streams transmitted from the host server via a PCIe connection of the PCIe fabric are received at the host interface and placed directly in DRAM as a write-back cache operation. In addition, the battery provides the DRAM with non-volatile memory capabilities and the storage modules with portability. A method for arbitration of write requests between the storage processors of the data storage system is also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on August 1, 2018 (16/051,950).