US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Multi-host bandwidth management considering external and internal traffic" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,658, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Multi-host bandwidth management considering external and internal traffic" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of using a bandwidth limiter for bandwidth allocation in an SSD, a dummy virtual function (VF) is used to transfer internal operations. A centralized logic such as the bandwidth limiter is incorporated in the device controller. This logic is responsible for controlling the bandwidth between the hosts. The logic is not just responsible for data transfers tri...