Patent ID: 11960721
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a request to store one or more keys in a key value Solid State drive (KV-SSD);
performing a storage operation for storing the one or more keys in a node of a data structure of the KV-SSD, wherein the storage operation for each key in the one or more keys comprises:
allocating a first region in the node for storing the key, such that at a size of the first region is equal to a size of the key;
allocating a second region in the node for storing key metadata associated with the key, such that the second region is of a predetermined size; and
storing the key in the first region and the key metadata in the second region of the node.