Lightbits
Labs announced it has been assigned four patents (10,956,346)
for "Storage system having an in-line hardware accelerator," (10,963,393)
"Storage system and a method for application aware processing," (10,684,964)
"System and method for reducing read latency in storage devices," and
(10,990,447) "System and method for controlling a flow of
storage access requests."
The abstract of the patent (10,956,346)
published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A storage system that
includes an in-line hardware accelerator, a solid-state drive (SSD) unit, a
central processing unit (CPU), a volatile memory module, and an accelerator
memory module that is coupled to the in-line hardware accelerator or belongs to
the in-line hardware accelerator; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is
directly coupled to the SSD unit, the volatile memory and the non-volatile
memory; wherein the CPU is directly coupled to the volatile memory and to the
non-volatile memory; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is configured to
manage access to the SSD unit; wherein the in-line accelerator is configured to
retrieve data stored in the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory
module without involving the CPU.
The patent (10,956,346) application was filed
on December 29, 2017 (15/857,756).
Inventors: Shmuel Ben-Yehuda, Ofir Efrati,
Sagi Grimberg, Eran Kirzner, Ziv Tishel, Fabian Trumper
The abstract of the patent (10,963,393)
published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A method for
accessing a storage system, the method may include receiving a block call, from
a processor that executes an application and by a storage engine of a computer
that is coupled to a storage system; generating, by the storage engine and
based on the block call, a key value call; and sending the key value call to a
key value frontend of the storage system.
The patent (10,963,393) application was filed
on December 29, 2017 (15/857,758).
Inventors: Shmuel Ben-Yehuda, Ofir Efrati,
Abel Alkon Gordon, Eran Kirzner, Fabian Trumper
The abstract of the patent (10,684,964)
published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A system and a method
for reducing read latency of a storage media associated with at least one host
computer, by at least one processor, may include assigning each storage segment
of the non-volatile storage to a first Read-Latency Set (RLS) and a second RLS,
wherein the first RLS is attributed a read/write mode and the second RLS is
attributed a read-only mode; receiving read-requests and write-requests from
the at least one host computer, wherein each of said requests is attributed a
priority; and serving the received requests according to RLS work modes and
according to the priority of each request.
The patent (10,684,964) application was filed
on June 16, 2020 (16/051,500).
Inventors: Abel Alkon Gordon, Sagi Grimberg,
Shmuel Ben-Yehuda
The abstract of the patent (10,990,447)
published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A method and a system
for controlling the access of a plurality of client computers to storage media,
the system including: a processor, a Random-Access Memory (RAM) device; and a
Network Interface Controller (NIC), configured to establish a plurality of
connections with the clients. The processor may dynamically allocate a buffer
memory space to each connected client computer on the RAM device, and the NIC
may be configured to receive at least one storage access request from at least
one client, over at least one computer network connection. The RAM device may
accumulate data of the at least one storage access request in the buffer
allocated to the respective connected client computer, and the processor may be
configured, upon completion of the accumulation of data, to propagate the
buffered data to at least one storage device of the storage media.
The patent (10,990,447) application was filed
on July 12, 2018 (16/033,326).
Inventors: Alexander Shpiner, Abel Alkon
Gordon, Sagi Grimberg
To read the patent abstracts and full detail
go to: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/lightbits-labs-ltd