Open Drives Assigned Three Patents

Real-time localized data access in distributed storage
Open Drives LLC, Culver City, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,016,688) developed by Gray, Scot, and Lee, Sean, Culver City, CA, for a “real-time localized data access in a distributed data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed is a distributed storage system and methods for providing real-time localized data access from different storage nodes of the distributed storage system. Providing the localized data access may include tracking access frequencies with which a file is directly accessed from the different storage nodes, storing a source copy of the file at the first storage node in response to the access frequency at the first storage node being greater than the access frequency at the other storage nodes, caching the file at a second storage node, transferring control over the source copy from the first storage node to a third storage node based on a change to the access frequencies, and validating the cached copy of the file at the second storage node against the source copy at the third storage node prior to responding to a request for the file from the second storage node.”

The patent application was filed on January 6, 2021 (Appl. No.17/142,643).

Asynchronous writing of synchronous write requests based on dynamic write
Open Drives LLC, Culver City, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,010,100) developed by Gray, Scot, and Lee, Sean, Culver City, CA, for “systems and methods for asynchronous writing of synchronous write requests based on a dynamic write threshold.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An asynchronous storage system may perform asynchronous writing of data from different sets of received non-consecutive synchronous write requests based on a dynamic write threshold that varies according to parameters of the storage device and/or synchronous write request patterns. The asynchronous writing may include coalescing data from a set of non-consecutive write requests in a plurality of received write requests that contain different data for a particular file, issuing a single asynchronous write request with the data that is coalesced from each write request of the set of non-consecutive write requests to the storage device instead of each write request of the set of non-consecutive write requests, and writing the data that is coalesced from each write request of the set of non-consecutive write requests to the storage device with a single write operation that is executed in response to the single asynchronous write request.”

The patent application was filed on September 29, 2020 (17/037,108).

Uneven distributed storage across a mesh fabric storage system
Open Drives LLC, Culver City, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,983,710) developed by Gray, Scot, and Lee, Sean, Culver City, CA, for “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 November 20, 2020 (Appl. No.17/100,633).