ScaleFlux Assigned Patent

ScaleFlux, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,386,002) developed by Wu, Qi, San Jose, CA, and Zhang, Tong, Albany, NY, for “enhancing solid-state storage device speed performance through stream-aware garbage collection.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods for enhancing the speed performance of solid-state storage devices using stream-aware garbage collection. A garbage collection method in according to an embodiment includes: searching, in each of a plurality of super-block groups G, for a super-block set C that satisfies: all of the super-blocks m within the super-block set C in the super-block group G contain a lesser amount of valid data than the other super-blocks within the super-block group G, and a total amount of valid data within the super-block set C are just enough to complete an entire super-block, selecting the super-block group G that includes the super-block set C with the maximum number of super-blocks m, and performing garbage collection on the super-block set C in the selected super-block group G.”

The patent application was filed on October 3, 2019 (16/591,722).