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Samsung patents smarter way to save data on hard drives

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent for a system that organizes how data is saved to storage devices like hard drives or SSDs. It uses a queue to hold save requests and checks if the new data overlaps with data already being processed before sending it to the drive.

Why it mattersThis is a technical improvement that helps computers manage storage tasks more efficiently, though it is unlikely to change how users interact with their devices.

In the filing’s own words

A system is disclosed. The system may include a queue to store a request, the request including a first address. A data structure may store information associated with a second address. A submission component may send the request to a storage device based at least in part on an overlap between the first address and the second address associated with the information in the data structure.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A system, comprising: a queue, the queue including a request, the request including a first address; a data structure storing an information associated with a second address; and a submission component to determine whether to send the request to a storage device based at least in part on the first address and the second address associated with the information in the data structure being disjoint, wherein the submission component includes a circuit, and wherein the submission component is included in a host machine.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: PERFORMANT ORDERING MECHANISM FOR IO IN BLOCK ALLOCATOR FOR WRITING TO DRIVE
Publication number: US20260329441A1
Application number: 19181322
Filed: Apr 16, 2025
Published: Oct 22, 2026
Inventors: 5
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06F 3/0613 Physics & computingG06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computing

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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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