US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Dec. 2 for "Padding synchronous write data with background write data based on storage system boundary alignment and size data" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,747, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Padding synchronous write data with background write data based on storage system boundary alignment and size data" was invented by Jonathan Walton (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards using background data to be written to a storage system as padding material that is combined with synchronous/client data writes to make data writes optimally-sized for the storage system. Instead of treating background work's data as a separate data stream of data to be written, some of the background data is preemptively...