Huawei Assigned Patent

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,195,392) developed by Feng, Bin, Shanghai, China, Huang, Cheng, and Gong, Xuewen, Shenzhen, China, for a “distributed storage method, apparatus, and system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A distributed data storage method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: splitting a data file to generate K data slices, splitting each data slice of the K data slices to generate M data blocks for each data slice, and performing check coding on the M data blocks by using a redundancy algorithm to generate N check blocks, determining, by using a random algorithm, a first physical storage node corresponding to one block of the M data blocks and the N check blocks, and determining at least M+1 different physical storage nodes based on the determined first physical storage node and according to a first rule-based sorting manner, and storing at least M+1 blocks of the M data blocks and the N check blocks onto the at least M+1 different storage nodes, where K, M, and N are integers.“

The patent application was filed on August 19, 2014 (14/462,966).