Amplidata/HGST/WD Assigned Patent

Amplidata NV, (acquired by HGST/WDC), Lochristi, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (9,588,862) developed by De Keyser, Koen, Sint-Denijs Westrem, Belgium, De Schrijver, Frederik, Wenduine, Belgium, and Stougie, Bastiaan, Melle, Belgium, for a “distributed object storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A distributed object storage system has a monitoring agent and/or a maintenance agent configured to determine for each of a plurality of repair tasks the actual concurrent failure tolerance of a corresponding repair data object. The actual concurrent failure tolerance corresponds to the number of storage elements that store sub blocks of the repair data object and are allowed to fail concurrently.“

The patent application was filed on June 4, 2013 (13/909,337).