ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,266, issued on May 26, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Metadata compression" was invented by Avi Goren (Tel Aviv, Israel), Noam Inbar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oded Sonin (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing metadata blocks of file system entities (FSEs), the method includes (i) determining, by a processing circuit of a storage system, a stress level that is non-linearly dependent upon a fullness of static FSE metadata blocks and a fullness of dynamic FSE metadata blocks, wherein the static FSE metadata blocks store FSE metadata items of a first type and the dynamic FSE metadata block...