US Patent Issued to Dropbox on July 7 for "Enhanced workload management using internal copy and/or zone-append technologies" (Washington, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,219, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Enhanced workload management using internal copy and/or zone-append technologies" was invented by Vishal Jose Mannanal (Renton, Wash.), Eric Shobe (Kihei, Hawaii) and Sandeep Kumar R. Ummadi (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology enhances workload management of data storage systems by using an internal copy function and/or a zone-append technology. The internal copy function is used, e.g., in merge operations to move data between locations on a disk without using off-disk resources (e.g., processing or memory of a CPU). Zone-append te...