US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 22 for "Accumulating I/O operations of data and checksums into a single combined I/O operation for implementation by an underlying storage device layer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,233, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Accumulating I/O operations of data and checksums into a single combined I/O operation for implementation by an underlying storage device layer" was invented by James Alastair Taylor (Livermore, Calif.) and Suhas Girish Urkude (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for combining data block and checksum block I/O into a single I/O operation. Many storage systems utilize checksums to verify the integrity of data blocks stored within storage devices managed by a storage stack. However, when a storage system reads a data block fr...