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US 11,080,337 B2Granted
Storage edge controller with a metadata computational engine
AssigneeMarvell Asia Pte Ltd
InventorsChristophe Therene, Nedeljko Varnica, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Manish Shrivastava, Mats Oberg, Noam Mizrahi, Leo Jiang
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide improved methods and systems for generating metadata for media objects at a computational engine (such as an artificial intelligence engine) within the storage edge controller, and for storing and using such metadata, in data processing systems.
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A storage device controller for managing storage and retrieval of data at one or more storage devices, the storage device controller comprising:
- a host interface configured to communicate with one or more hosts;
- a memory interface, configured to communicate locally with a non-volatile memory of the one or more storage devices;
- a first processor for managing local storage or retrieval of data objects at the non-volatile memory, the first processor being configured to:
- determine whether the first processor is in a low utilization state for controlling storage operations;
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- based on the determination, selectively store in the non-volatile memory received data objects that are received from the one or more hosts, or retrieve from the non-volatile memory stored data objects that are stored in the non-volatile memory to be provided to a computational engine, including retrieving stored data objects from the non-volatile memory in response to determining that the first processor is in the low utilization state;
- wherein the computational engine is configured to:
- obtain, from a volatile memory, a first computational model and a set of parameters for implementing the first computational model for computing metadata that defines content characteristics of the data objects, and
- using the first computational model, compute the metadata of the stored data objects that are selectively retrieved from the non-volatile memory or compute the metadata of selected received data objects that are received from the one or more hosts for storage in the non-volatile memory before the received data objects are stored by the first processor in the non-volatile memory.
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A method for managing storage and retrieval of data at one or more storage devices, the method comprising:
- communicating, via a host interface of a storage device controller, with one or more hosts;
- communicating, via a memory interface of the storage device controller, locally with a non-volatile memory of the one or more storage devices;
- determine whether a first processor of the storage device controller is in a low utilization state for controlling storage operations;
- managing, via the first processor of the storage device controller, local storage or retrieval of data objects at the non-volatile memory, wherein the first processor is configured to, based on the determination, selectively store in the non-volatile memory received data objects that are received from the one or more hosts, or retrieve from the non-volatile memory stored data objects that are stored in the non-volatile memory to be provided to a computational engine, including retrieving stored data objects from the non-volatile memory in response to determining that the first processor is in the low utilization state;
- obtaining, from a volatile memory, a first computational model and a set of parameters to implement the first computational model to compute the metadata that defines content characteristics of the data objects;
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- computing, via the computational engine using the computational model, the metadata of the stored data objects that are selectively retrieved from the non-volatile memory or the metadata of selected received data objects that are received from the one or more hosts for storage in the non-volatile memory before the received data objects are stored by the first processor in the non-volatile memory.
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