Masergy Communications Assigned Patent

Masergy Communications, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,356,174) developed by Stute, Michael Roy, O’Brien, FL, for a “multi-layer data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed embodiments include data storage systems and methods to store data. In one embodiment, the system includes a storage medium having a plurality of partitions for storing data values of a dataset. The system also includes a system manager operable to receive a data value connected to the system manager and assign a plurality of data subsets of the dataset to the plurality of partitions. The system also includes a key manager operable to assign a key of a key space to each data value of the dataset. The system also includes a top layer data manager and at least one bottom layer data manager, each bottom layer data manager assigned to a data subset. The top layer data manager passes data values to the at least one bottom layer data manager. The system also includes an allocation manager operable to dynamically readjust a storage space of the partition.”

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2016 (15/148,764).