ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,388, issued on March 31, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Handling excess bandwidth in a storage system" was invented by Asaf Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avi Goren (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Khazon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ilan Ben-Hagai (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing write buffers (WBs), that includes (i) receiving write requests for writing input information units (IIUs) to the storage system; (ii) estimating an occurrence of a future overflow of first WBs that are allocated, during steady state operation, to store IIUs before the IIUs are processed and migrated to a permanent st...