Open Drives Assigned Patent

Open Drives LLC, Culver City, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,852,963) developed by Gray, Scot, and Lee, Sean, Culver City, CA, for an “uneven distributed storage across a mesh fabric storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An uneven distributed storage across a mesh fabric storage system may include receiving storage operations from one or more client devices and/or applications contemporaneously with receiving availability messaging from a set of multiple storage devices that may be of the same or different types. One or more of the storage operations may be assigned to a storage device that has signaled its readiness to perform the one or more storage operations via an issued availability message. Each storage device may thereby perform a subset of the collective set of storage operations with the uneven distribution allocating load that is directly commensurate with the performance of each storage device. Stored data may be moved between storage devices using a similar availability-driven methodology so as to reallocate capacity usage while still providing the fastest storage performance associated with all storage devices writing the data as it is generated.”

The patent application was filed on June 8, 2020 (16/896,053).