California Institute of Technology Assigned Two Patents

Secure raid schemes for distributed storage
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,430,272) developed by Huang, Wentao, Pasadena, CA, and Bruck, Jehoshua, La Canada, CA, for “secure raid schemes for distributed storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are low-complexity schemes to store information in a distributed manner across multiple nodes of a computer system. The schemes are resilient to node failures and resistant to node eavesdropping. The disclosed schemes may be used in conjunction with RAID systems, and when used in such systems may be referred to as ‘secure RAID’.”

The patent application was filed on January 25, 2017 (15/415,707).

Balanced Reed-Solomon codes
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,425,106) developed by Halbawi, Wael, Pasadena, CA, Hassibi, Babak, San Marino, CA, and Liu, Zihan, Berkeley, CA, for “balanced Reed-Solomon codes.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Balanced Reed-Solomon codes in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable balanced load in distributed storage systems. One embodiment includes a storage controller, wherein the storage processor is configured by the controller Reed-Solomon application to: receive a data segment, partition the data segment into a first block of data and a second block of data, transmit the first block of data to a first node controller in the plurality of node controllers, transmit the second block of data to a second node controller in the plurality of node controllers, wherein the node processor in the first node controller is configured by the node Reed-Solomon application to: receive the first block of data, encode the first block of data using a balanced and sparsest error-correcting code, and store the encoded first block of data in the node memory of the first node controller.”

The patent application was filed on November 28, 2017 (15/824,948).