Samsung patents storage drives that reassemble split data files
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method where storage drives work together to rebuild data. If a file is split into pieces across different drives, one drive sends its piece to another, which then joins them back together into a complete record.
In the filing’s own words
A method for computational storage may include storing, at a storage device, a first portion of data, wherein the first portion of data may include a first fragment of a record, and a second portion of data may include a second fragment of the record, and appending the second fragment of the record to the first portion of data. The method may further include performing, at the storage device, an operation on the first and second fragments of the record. The method may further include determining that the first portion of data may include a first fragment of a record, and a second portion of data may include a second fragment of the record, wherein appending the second fragment of the record to the first portion of data may include appending, based on the determining, the second fragment of the record to the first portion of data.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for computational storage, the method comprising: reading, from a first storage medium at a first storage drive, a first portion of data, wherein the first portion of data comprises a first fragment of a record; reading, from a second storage medium at a second storage drive, a second fragment of the record; sending, from the second storage drive to the first storage drive, the second fragment of the record; and appending, in response to the sending, at the first storage drive, the second fragment of the record to the first portion of data to reconstruct the record.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for data resizing for computational storage
- Patent number
- US12737113B2
- Application number
- 17591597
- Filed
- Feb 2, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
G06F 3/0608 Physics & computingG06F 3/0655 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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