Weka.IO Assigned Two Patents

Distributed erasure coded virtual file system
Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11740971) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, and Zvibel, Liran, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “distributed erasure coded virtual file system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices comprises one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. Each one of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces is organized into a plurality of stripes. Each one or more stripes of the plurality of stripes is part of a respective one of a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) protection domains. Each of the plurality of stripes may comprise a plurality of storage blocks. Each block of a particular one of the plurality of stripes may reside on a different one of the plurality of storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-02-02 (17/591217).

Electronic storage system
Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11733866) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Zvibel, Liran, and Palmon, Omri, Tel Aviv, Israel, for an “electronic storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems for electronic storage are provided. A storage system comprises a plurality of storage system front ends, a plurality of storage system back ends, and a plurality of solid state drive (SSD) agents. Each storage system front end resides on a server of a plurality of servers. Each server of the plurality of servers comprises one or more storage system back ends of the plurality of storage system back ends. Each storage system front end is able to receive I/O requests and relay information associated with the I/O requests to a relevant storage system back end. The relevant storage system back end communicates metadata associated with the I/O request to an SSD via an SSD agent.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-12-02 (17/540403).