Datrium Assigned Patent

Datrium, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,639,268) developed by Patterson, III, R. Hugo, Los Altos, CA, for a “distributed data storage system with key-based addressing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In a Distributed Virtual Array data storage system, a storage pool receives, from at least one writing entity within a host, a request to write a container of data that is identified by a unique key that is independent of physical storage identifiers and that comprises a set of data chunks. The key indicates a plurality of storage devices in which to store the data chunks, which are accordingly stored in those storage devices. Different combinations, each comprising a layout map, of storage devices are represented in a layout table. Information in the container key is used to select which layout map to use for the chunks of each container. An error-correction chunk is preferably also stored along with the chunks of each container so as to enable data container reconstruction in case of storage device failure.“

The patent application was filed on August 21, 2014 (14/464,733).