Patent ID: 9483186
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a data storage system, the method comprising: receiving a set of data storage commands directed to the data storage system; identifying that a subset of the set of received data storage commands satisfies a pre-defined pattern; and in response to identifying, applying a policy associated with the pre-defined pattern to fulfillment of the data storage commands of the subset; wherein: the data storage system is configured to execute multiple data storage commands in parallel; identifying that the subset of the set of received data storage commands satisfies the pre-defined pattern includes identifying that the data storage commands of the subset belong to a single stream of related commands; applying the policy includes executing the data storage commands of the subset in series rather than in parallel with each other; and identifying that the data storage commands of the subset belong to a single stream of related commands includes determining that a logical block address of each data storage command of the subset is within a threshold distance of a logical block address of another data storage command of the subset.