Avid Assigned Patent

Avid Technology, Inc., Erlington, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,510,370) developed by Steven C. Quinn, Portsmouth, NH, and Stanley Rabinowitz, Chelmsford, MA, for an “array-based distributed storage system with parity.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one general aspect, a data access method is disclosed that includes directing data block write requests from different clients to different storage servers based on a map. Data blocks referenced in the data block write requests are stored in the storage servers. Data from the data write requests are also relayed to a parity server, and parity information is derived and stored for the blocks. This method can reduce the need for inter-server communication, and can be scaled across an arbitrary number of servers. It can also employ parity load distribution to improve the performance of file transfers.”

The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2008 (12/072,397).