KT Corporation Assigned Patent

KT Corporation, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,158,460) developed by Park, Chang-Sik, Seoul, Korea, Lee, Eo-Hyung, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and Hwang, Jin-Kyung, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, for a “selecting data nodes using multiple storage policies in cloud storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided are a method and a server for selecting data nodes for storing an object and replicas thereof in a cloud storage system having a plurality of data nodes grouped in a plurality of storage areas. The method may include selecting at least one storage area for storing the object and the replicas thereof sequentially with a locality policy, a low-cost policy, a load-balancing policy, and a space-balancing policy and selecting at least one data node from the selected at least one storage area sequentially using a load-balancing policy and a space-balancing policy.“

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2012 (13/455,269).