Avere Systems/Microsoft Assigned Patent

Avere Systems, Inc.,(acquired by Microsoft Corp.) Pittsburg, PA, has been assigned a patent (10,338,853) developed by Kazar, Michael L., Pittsburgh, PA, for a “media aware distributed data layout.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system includes a plurality of vdisks, with each vdisk containing a plurality of storage segments, and each segment providing a specific class of service, (CoS) for storage. Each vdisk stores files with data and meta data distributed among its storage segments. A storage system includes a memory having multiple classes of service. The system includes an interface for storing a file as blocks of data associated with a class of service in the memory. The interface chooses the class of service for a block on a block by block basis for storage. A file system for storing a file. A file system for storing includes a plurality of vdisks. A method for storing a file.”

The patent application was filed on July 13, 2017 (15/649,260).