Buffalo Assigned Patent
Storage apparatus and method that generates preliminary management information including same content as main management information for identifying physical address of data
By Francis Pelletier | July 25, 2023 at 2:00 pmBuffalo Inc., Nagoya, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11681612) developed by Makuni, Kazuki, and Azuma, Shuichiro, Nagoya, Japan, for “storage apparatus and method that generates preliminary management information including the same content as main management information for identifying physical address of data.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage apparatus includes: a memory that stores data and main management information, the main management information identifying a physical address of the data, and processing circuitry configured to generate preliminary management information that includes information of the same content as the main management information, and select, as use management information, any one of the main management information and the preliminary management information upon start of the storage apparatus. Access to the data stored in the memory is performed using the selected use management information.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-05-18 (17/322902).