Patent ID: 11875051
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A storage medium including computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a controller, cause the controller to:
receive a data group including data blocks that are tagged with a group identifier;
contiguously write the data blocks in storage media in the first instance without defragmenting the data blocks;
maintain a group-to-physical table that includes correspondence between the group identifier and a range of contiguous physical block addresses where the data blocks are stored;
maintain a logical-to-physical table that includes correspondence between logical block addresses and the physical block addresses of the data blocks; and
determine the logical block addresses that correspond with the group identifier by referencing the group-to-physical table and the logical-to-physical table.