Futurewei Assigned Patent

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,451,024) developed by Hughes, James, Palo Alto, CA, Wang, DaoHui, Shenzhen, China, Verma, Ajit, Los Altos, CA, Plocher, John, San Jose, CA, and Liu, Xian, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “self-organizing disk, SoD.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “System and methods for storage object distribution using a universal distributed storage, (UDS) system. An embodiment UDS includes server nodes and a header server in communication with the server nodes. The header server is configured to divide an object received from a client into chunks, to assign a key to each of the chunks, to calculate a hash value for each of the keys to identify which of the server nodes will store each of the chunks, and to instruct one of the server nodes to store each of the chunks in accordance with the hash value calculated. In an embodiment, the server nodes include a single central processing unit, a single storage device, a primary network interface, and a redundant network interface.“

The patent application was filed on April 12, 2013 (13/861,897).