Spectra Logic Assigned Patent
File-level array storage
By Francis Pelletier | May 3, 2019 at 2:30 pmSpectra Logic, Corp., Boulder, CO, has been assigned a patent (10,248,617) developed by Starr, Matthew Thomas, Lafayette, CO, for a “file-level array storage.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An apparatus and associated methodology contemplating an apparatus having a processor-based storage controller. A nontransient, tangible computer memory is configured to store a data file. Computer instructions are stored in the computer memory defining file-level array storage logic that is configured to be executed by the controller to logically containerize the data file in a file-level data set across a plurality of virtual storage containers, and to concurrently flush the virtual storage containers by migrating units of the file-level data set to a plurality of physical storage devices.”
The patent application was filed on December 22, 2015 (14/977,987).