Nexenta Assigned Patent

Nexenta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,019,317) developed by Usvyatsky, Ilya, Northborough, MA, Bestler, Caitlin, Sunnyvale, CA, and Yusupov, Dmitry, Cupertino, CA, for a “parity protection for data chunks in an object storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention relates to a method and system for providing parity protection in an object storage system. The present invention allows for tracking the storage requirements for chunks in a distributed storage cluster when transitioning from replica-based protection to parity or erasure coding-based protection and when transitioning from parity or erasure coding-based protection to replica-based protection.”

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2016 (15/137,920).