US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 3 for "Clustering front-end tracks to optimize back-end write operations" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,130, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Clustering front-end tracks to optimize back-end write operations" was invented by Lixin Pang (Needham, Mass.), Rong Yu (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a control device may receive a plurality of front-end (FE) write pending (WP) tracks. The control device may cluster the plurality of FE WP tracks into one or more FE extent objects using spatial correlations. The control device may add the one or more FE extent objects to a tree data structure. The control device may form b...