Sanmina Assigned Patent

Sanmina Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,697,226) developed by Youngworth, Chris, San Jose, CA, for a “network system to distribute chunks across multiple physical nodes.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of storing a file in a storage system that includes a plurality of memory-storage hosts includes: providing unique chunk identifiers for memory chunks included in the file, using a hash mapping to identify one or more storage locations for each chunk identifier, each storage location corresponding to a portion of a memory-storage host, and storing each memory chuck at the corresponding one or more storage locations identified by the hash mapping.“

The patent application was filed on August 14, 2013 (13/967,289).