US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Data storage system with threshold-based container splitting in cache flushing structure" (Chinese, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,641, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data storage system with threshold-based container splitting in cache flushing structure" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Geng Han (Beijing) and Jibing Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working-set structure is used to organize cached data for storing to persistent storage, which includes leaf structures and page descriptors (PDs) for data pages to be persisted. Upon adding a new PD located in an address range of an existing leaf structure, a PD population count of the existing leaf structure is compared to a pr...