Synamedia Assigned Patent

Synamedia Ltd., Middlesex, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (10,346,074) developed by Kingdon, Kevin Wayne, Hayward, CA, and Okelberry, Ryan Michael, Provo, UT, for a “method of compressing parity data upon writing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A disclosed method is performed at a fault-tolerant object-based storage system configured to synthesize parity data in order to protect stored data from loss, the fault-tolerant object storage system including a plurality of storage entities each configured to store data on an object-basis. The method includes determining a first parity value for a first data block set of one or more data block sets, wherein the first data block set comprises one or more respective data blocks, each respective data block associated with a respective storage entity of the plurality of storage entities. The method further includes generating a first compressed parity indicator for the first data block set, corresponding to the first parity value, and storing the first compressed parity indicator in a stripe of parity data in place of the first parity value within a first block set comprising the first data block set.”

The patent application was filed on July 12, 2016 (15/208,360).