US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 27 for "Method, device, and computer program product for adjusting data placement" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,072, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for adjusting data placement" was invented by Chark Wenshuai Yu (Shanghai), Lu Lei (Shanghai) and Jiang Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data placement is adjusted. For instance, it is determined whether a node Failure To Tolerate (FTT) of a chunk in a storage system meets an optimized node FTT corresponding to the chunk, and, when it is determined that it does not meet, an FTT task entry for the chunk is added to a chunk index of the storage system. The added FTT task entry includes an identifier of...