Facebook Assigned Patent

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,793,328) developed by five co-inventors for “a distributed storage system.”

The co-inventors are Jack William Lindamood, Mountain View, CA, Douglas John Beaver, San Francisco, CA; Apostolos Lerios, Austin, TX, Matthew Page, Mountain View, CA, and Peter Avelino Ruibal, Palo Alto, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one embodiment, a first computing device receives a write request and data from a second computing device; iteratively attempts to write the data until a copy of the data is successfully written to each and every storage node belonging to a storage volume; and transmits a volume identifier of the storage volume and a data identifier assigned to the data to the second computing device. In one embodiment, a first computing device receives a read request and a volume identifier and a data identifier from a second computing device; accesses a cache to select the storage volume identified by the volume identifier; iteratively attempts to read data identified by the data identifier until a copy of the data is successfully read from a storage node belonging to the selected storage volume; and transmits the copy of the data to the second computing device.”

The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2010 (12/972,220).