Samsung patents storage system that picks the fastest data path
This patent describes a memory device that helps a computer find the quickest way to access saved files. It uses performance data and file maps to create a specific data path, then sends a request to route the data through that path via a switch.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating storage devices, a memory device, a host device, and a switch, is provided. The method includes: receiving, by the memory device, a first request corresponding to target user data from the host device; generating, by the memory device, first input/output (I/O) stream information based on telemetry information corresponding to the storage devices and map data in a buffer memory of the memory device based on the first request, wherein the first I/O stream information indicates a data path between a first storage device of the storage devices and the host device; providing, by the memory device, a first redirection request including the first request and the first I/O stream information to the host device or the first storage device through the switch; and processing the target user data according to the first I/O stream information in the first redirection request.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A memory device comprising: a buffer memory configured to store a plurality of map data for managing a plurality of user data; and a memory controller configured to: update storage information corresponding to a plurality of storage devices; receive, from a host device, a request corresponding to target user data of the plurality of user data; generate, based on the request, stream information based on the storage information and the plurality of map data; and provide a redirection request, comprising the request and the stream information, to the host device or a target storage device of the plurality of storage devices.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- System and method of host and storage device path selection by memory device
- Patent number
- US12748550B2
- Application number
- 18947682
- Filed
- Nov 14, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0656 Physics & computingG06F 3/061 Physics & computingG06F 3/0635 Physics & computingG06F 3/0685 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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