Meta Platforms Assigned Patent

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,237,736) developed by Sayed, Cai, Yu, Palo Alto, CA, Mah, John, Westminster, CO, Fu, Chengyan, and Zhang, Haoci, Seattle, WA, for an “efficient data recovery for tape storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An indication that a selected data set stored on a selected tape storage media is associated with a failure is received. An error correction data set group for the selected data set is identified, and wherein the error correction data set group includes a plurality of data sets and each data set included in the error correction data set group is stored on a different tape storage media. One or more data sets other than the selected data set that are included in the error correction data set group are selectively obtained from one or more corresponding tape storage media other than the selected tap storage media without reading entire contents of the one or more corresponding tape storage media. The obtained one or more data sets are utilized to recover at least a portion of the selected data set associated with the failure.”

The patent application was filed on October 14, 2019 (16/601,295).