Fusion-io Assigned Patent

Fusion-io, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, has been assigned a patent (8,601,211) developed by four co-inventors for a “storage system with front-end controller.”

The co-inventors are David Flynn, Sandy, UT, John Strasser, Syracuse, UT, Jonathan Thatcher, Liberty Lake, WA, and Michael Zappe, Arvada, CO.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments are disclosure relating to a front-end controller in a storage system. In one embodiment, a storage request is received at a storage device in a group of storage devices. The storage request identifies one or more data segments of a data stripe pattern assigned to the storage device by a front-end controller of the group. In such an embodiment, the storage device communicates the identified data segments with a storage client independently of the front-end controller. In some embodiments, the storage system includes a front-end, distributed redundant array of independent drives (RAID). In one such embodiment, the storage devices independently receive storage requests from a client over a network, and one or more of the storage devices are designated as parity-mirror storage devices for a stripe.”

The patent application was filed on June 4, 2012 (13/488,301).