Compuverde Assigned Patent

Compuverde AB, Karlskrona, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (9,948,716) developed by Bernbo, Stefan, Karlskrona, Sweden, Melander, Christian, Rodeby, Sweden, Persson, Roger, Karlskrona, Sweden, and Petersson, Gustav, Sturko, Sweden, for a “distributed data storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention relates to a distributed data storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes. Using unicast and multicast transmission, a server application may write data in the storage system. When writing data, at least two storage nodes are selected based in part on a randomized function, which ensures that data is sufficiently spread to provide efficient and reliable replication of data in case a storage node malfunctions.”

The patent application was filed on October 26, 2016 (15/334,551).