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Nexenta Assigned Patent

Multicast collaborative erasure encoding and distributed parity protection

Nexenta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,923,970) developed by Bestler, Caitlin, Sunnyvale, CA, Aizman, Alexander, Santa Clara, CA, and Novak, Robert E., Union City, CA, for a “multicast collaborative erasure encoding and distributed parity protection.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure provides methods and systems for multicast collaborative erasure encoding and methods and systems for distributed parity protection. One embodiment relates to a method of multicast collaborative erasure encoding of a chunk stored in a distributed object storage cluster. A roll-call request is multicast to every storage server in a negotiating group for the chunk. Roll-call inventory responses are generated and multicast by every storage server in the negotiating group. The roll-call inventory responses are collected by every storage server in the negotiating group from other storage servers in the negotiating group to form a set of roll-call inventory responses. A logical evaluation of the set of roll-call inventory responses may then be performed by every storage server in the negotiating group. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.

The patent application was filed on August 21, 2015 (14/832,075).

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