US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Feb. 10 for "Method for efficient spare PE allocation of a raid system" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,504, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method for efficient spare PE allocation of a raid system" was invented by Paul Nehse (Livermore, Calif.), Michael Thiels (San Martin, Calif.), Dale Stephenson (Buford, Ga.) and Devendra Kulkarni (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical extent manager (PEM) receives a first message indicating a first PE of a first redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array of a disk has failed. The PEM determines a plurality of spare physical extents (PEs) available for reconstruction, the plurality of spare PEs including a first spare PE and a...