Facebook Assigned Patent

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,178,958) developed by Lindamood, Jack William, San Mateo, CA, Beaver, Douglas John, San Francisco, CA, Lerios, Apostolos, Austin, TX, Page, Matthew, Mountain View, CA, and Ruibal, Peter Avelino, Palo Alto, CA, for a “distributed storage system.”

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 June 6, 2014 (14/298,481).