US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 26 for "Method, device, and computer program product for data migration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,997, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for data migration" was invented by Shuning Zhang (Beijing), Lei Gao (Beijing), Weibing Zhang (Beijing) and Lisen Guo (Kangze Jiayu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data migration involve obtaining, at an edge device, a bitmap in a local memory, the bitmap including a plurality of parameter values. The techniques further involve updating, in response to a data block being written or read, a data heat value of the data block based on the bitmap. The techniques further involve migrating the data ...