Alibaba Group Holding Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY, has been assigned a patent (10,229,003) developed by Li, Shu, Bothell, WA, and Huo, Jianjian, San Jose, CA, for “method and system for iterative data recovery and error correction in a distributed system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”One embodiment facilitates iterative data recovery and error correction in a distributed system. During operation, the system receives, by a controller of a first storage device, data to be encoded and stored. The system encodes, by the controller, the data based on an erasure code, (EC) to obtain an EC-encoded codeword. The system splits, by the controller, the EC-encoded codeword into sub-blocks. The system encodes, by the controller, a sub-block based on an error correction code, (ECC) to obtain an ECC-encoded local sub-block. The system stores the ECC-encoded local sub-block in the first storage device. The system transmits, to a second storage device, a remaining sub-block, wherein the transmitted sub-block is to be ECC-encoded and stored by the second storage device, thereby allowing the data to be subsequently decoded by the first storage device.”

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2017 (15/625,529).