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Samsung patents storage method that splits data across channels for multiple users

This patent describes a storage device that manages data for multiple users, or tenants, by using a controller to decide how to distribute their files. When the system receives a certain number of commands, it calculates how many data channels are needed to store each user's information efficiently. The data is then saved across specific memory chips to balance the workload.

Why it mattersThis improves how shared storage systems handle traffic from many different users at once, which is useful for cloud servers and data centers.

In the filing’s own words

A storage device includes a plurality of memory dies, corresponding to a plurality of channels and a plurality of ways, and a storage controller connected to the plurality of memory dies. The storage controller may be configured to receive commands from a plurality of tenants; in response to a number of the received commands being equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, determine a first number of channels required to store first data of a first tenant in each way of the plurality of ways based on commands received from the first tenant; and store the first data in the first number of memory dies in each way of the plurality of ways. The first data may be stored in memory dies that correspond to the plurality of channels in at least a portion or an entire portion of the plurality of ways.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A storage device comprising: a plurality of memory dies corresponding to a plurality of channels and a plurality of ways; and a storage controller connected to the plurality of memory dies, wherein the storage controller is configured to: receive commands from a plurality of tenants; in response to a number of the received commands being equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, determine a first number of channels required to store first data of a first tenant in each way of the plurality of ways based on at least one of (i) a command received from the first tenant or (ii) a command received from each of the plurality of tenants; and store the first data in a first number of memory dies in each way of the plurality of ways, a value of the first number of the first number of channels being equal to a value of the first number of the first number of memory dies, and wherein the first data is stored in memory dies that correspond to the plurality of channels in at least a portion or an entire portion of the plurality of ways.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Storage device for storing data from a plurality of tenants to correspond to a plurality of channels and method of operating the same
Patent number
US12743234B2
Application number
18634541
Filed
Apr 12, 2024
Granted
Sep 22, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0604 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computing
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