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Samsung patents SSD settings that give different users different speeds

This patent describes a way to manage a shared solid-state drive (SSD) by assigning specific performance levels to different users, called tenants. The system sends a configuration message to the drive that tells it how much speed or capacity to give each user based on their assigned level.

Why it mattersThis is useful for cloud servers where many customers share the same hardware, ensuring one user's heavy data usage does not slow down others.

In the filing’s own words

Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for multitenancy SSD configuration. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include identifying an identifier of a first tenant of a storage device and assigning a first performance level to the first tenant. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include generating a first performance parameter based on the first performance level and sending, to the storage device, a configuration message comprising the first performance parameter and the identifier of the first tenant.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of multitenancy, the method comprising: identifying an identifier of a first tenant of a storage device; assigning a first performance level to the first tenant; generating a first performance parameter based on the first performance level; and sending, to the storage device, a configuration message comprising the first performance parameter and the identifier of the first tenant.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: Multitenancy SSD configuration
Patent number: US12743207B2
Application number: 18634873
Filed: Apr 12, 2024
Granted: Sep 22, 2026
Inventors: 7
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06F 3/061 Physics & computingG06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computing

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