WekaIO Assigned Patent For Distributed Erasure Coded Virtual File System

WekaIO, Inc. has been assigned a patent (10,437,675) for ‘distributed erasure coded virtual file system‘ and has 40 more patents pending.

The abstract of the patent (10,437,675) published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices comprises one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. Each one of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces is organized into a plurality of stripes. Each one or more stripes of the plurality of stripes is part of a respective one of a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) protection domains. Each of the plurality of stripes may comprise a plurality of storage blocks. Each block of a particular one of the plurality of stripes may reside on a different one of the plurality of storage devices.”

The patent (10437675) application was filed on August 2, 2017 (15/667,097).

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