Scality Assigned Patent

Scality, S.A., Paris, France, has been assigned a patent (11922042) developed by Sy, Lam Pham, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Ferrandis, Frederic, Saint Leu la Foret, France, and Artuso, Benoit, Chanteloupe les Vignes, France, for a “data placement in large scale object storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method is described. The method includes performing the following as part of a process for storing an object into an object storage system: assigning chunks of the object to different servers of the object storage system and constructing a graph for the object that describes which of the chunks of the object are being stored in which of the servers, recognizing a stuck condition in which a server with available storage space to store one of the chunks of the object cannot be found, in response to the recognizing, expanding the graph with information from graphs of other objects that are stored in the object storage system to identify other servers in the object storage system to help resolve the stuck condition, processing the expanded graph information to recognize a predefined graphical pattern, applying a predefined solution for the predefined graphical pattern to the expanded graph information to resolve the stuck situation including modifying at least some of the information from the graphs of the other objects, and, moving chunks of one of the other objects affected by the modifying over a network to a new server within the object storage system.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-10-29 (17/515167).