Nirvanix Assigned Patent

Nirvanix, Inc., San Diego, CA has been assigned a patent (8,522,252) developed by Scott P. Chatley, Thanh T. Phan, and Troy C. Gatchell, San Diego, CA for a “load based file allocation among a plurality of storage devices.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for balancing loads among a plurality of storage devices, includes: receiving a request from a user device to download a data file; identifying a first set of storage devices containing the requested data file, wherein the first set comprises one or more storage devices; identifying a first storage device from the set that is currently least busy among the storage devices in the first set, and directing the first storage device to serve the request; determining if the first storage device is too busy; and if the first storage device is too busy copying the requested data file to a second storage device which did not previously store the data file, thereby adding the second storage device to the first set of storage devices containing the requested data file.”

The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2012 (13/595,959).