US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Prioritized thin provisioning with eviction overflow between tiers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,887, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Prioritized thin provisioning with eviction overflow between tiers" was invented by Taylor Alan Hope (Redmond, Wash.) and Vinod R. Shankar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system configured to thinly provision a plurality of logical volumes over a plurality of types of storage. The plurality of logical volumes includes (1) a first logical volume that is thinly provisioned over a first type of storage, and (2) a second logical volume that is thinly provisioned over a second type of storage. The status of the plurality...