US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Optimized selective scanning of overlap-table in storage memories for sequential data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,536, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimized selective scanning of overlap-table in storage memories for sequential data" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual bitmap solution can be beneficial for reducing full cache scans due to data overlap issues that occur using an overlap mechanism. One bitmap is geared towards random read workloads while the other bitmap is geared towards sequential read workloads. When a read command is received, the appropriate bitmap is checked to see if a full scan is nece...