US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 14 for "Flexible data placement using log structured system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,654, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Flexible data placement using log structured system" was invented by Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Ajay Karri (South Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: receiving writes from applications executing on hosts; recording, the writes in entries in a log; and flushing, from the log, the entries denoting the write operations, including: segregating content written by the write operations into streams, wherein each of the streams corresponds to one of a plurality of classes or types of data associated with one of a p...