MIT and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung Assigned Patent

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (11463113) developed by Medard, Muriel, Belmont, MA, and Hellge, Cornelius Hans Ulrich, Berlin, Germany, for “apparatus and method for multi-code distributed storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and techniques described herein include jointly decoding coded data of different codes, including different coding algorithms, finite fields, and/or source blocks sizes. The techniques described herein can be used to improve existing distributed storage systems by allowing gradual data migration. The techniques can further be used within existing storage clients to allow application data to be stored within diverse different distributed storage systems.”

The patent application was filed on 2017-01-27 (16/066866).