Alibaba Group Holding Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd., Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (10,176,829) developed by Li, Shu, Santa Clara, CA , for an “increasing storage areal density using predictive data locations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for increasing the storage areal density of a storage device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving host data, the host data including first data and extra bit data, generating run-length limited, (RLL) data by encoding the first data with an RLL encoder, generating a symbol corresponding to at least one bit of the extra bit data, and generating superpositioned data by inserting the symbol within a contiguous section of repeating bits in the RLL-encoded first data”.

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2018 (15/940,038).