Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and Qatar University Assigned Patent

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, and Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, has been assigned a patent (11748197) developed by Malluhi, Qutaibah, and Mhaisen, Naram, Doha, Qatar, for “data storage methods and systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage method includes partitioning a data into an array having a plurality of data blocks and storing the data blocks across a plurality of storage nodes. Parity blocks are encoded based on the data array by performing a shift operation on the data array to produce a shifted array and performing an exclusive OR (XOR) operation on the elements in each row of the shifted array to produce a parity block. The method further includes storing the parity blocks across a plurality of the storage nodes. Systems are configured to recover data from a data array in the event that the data array is at least partly inaccessible.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-01-30 (16/777609).