Patents Examined by Daniel C Chapell
  • Patent number: 10031689
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for stream management in storage devices. A storage device comprising a memory device and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may detect a stream collision in which a host device writes a first version of a logical block (LB) to a first stream, and writes a second version of the same LB to a second stream. The processors may compare a first blockset sequence number (BSN) associated with a first collection of physical blocks referenced by the first stream to a second BSN associated with a second collection of physical blocks referenced by the second stream. Based on the comparison of the first BSN to the second BSN, the processor may write, to the mem device, the second version of the LB to the first stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David George Dreyer, Adam Espeseth