Purdue Research Foundation, AT&T Intellectual Property I, The George Washington University Assigned Patent

Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA, and The George Washington University, Washington, DC, has been assigned a patent (10,547,681) developed by Xiang, Yu, Somerset, NJ, Chen, Yih-Farn Robin, Bridgewater, NJ, Aggarwal, Vaneet, West Lafayette, IN, and Lan, Tian, Washington, DC, for a “functional caching in erasure coded storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Encoding a file into a plurality of chunks, wherein a subset of the plurality of chunks may be used to create a functional equivalent of the file. At least one additional chunk is created from the plurality of chunks. The at least one additional chunk is directed to be stored in a cache memory and the plurality of chunks are directed to be stored on at least one storage node. Upon demand for the file, at least one additional chunk is cased to be retrieved from the cache and at least a portion of the plurality of chunks are caused to be retrieved from the at least one storage node and the functional equivalent of the file is constructed through utilization of the at least one additional chunk and the portion of the plurality of chunks.”

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2016 (15/199,475).