Mastercard International Assigned Patent

Mastercard International Inc., Purchase, NY, has been assigned a patent (10,877,681) developed by Szwarc, Wesley Alan, Moscow Mills, MO, and Tierney, Gerard, O’Fallon, MO, for “systems and methods for redundant array data alignment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data alignment (DA) computing device is communicatively coupled to a first and a second data storage device. The first data storage device stores an array of partitions including a first subset and a second subset of partitions, and metadata associated with the array that includes a reference pointer for each partition. The DA computing device updates the metadata to remove the reference pointers for the second subset of partitions and thereby remove the second subset from the array, stores a partition table defining the first subset within the first data storage device and the second subset within the second data storage device, stores the metadata associated with the array within the second data storage device, updates the second data storage device to include the second subset of partitions, and updates the metadata stored by the data storage devices to link the second subset of partitions to the array.”

The patent application was filed on September 26, 2019 (16/583,766).