US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 13 for "Variable sized data chunks with striped erasure coding" (Chinese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,278, issued on May 13, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Variable sized data chunks with striped erasure coding" was invented by Jiang Cao (Shanghai), Kalyan C. Gunda (Bangalore, India), Gary Jialei Wu (Shanghai) and Chark Wenshuai Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine to write a data object to a storage system that implements an append-only write policy to data chunks. The system can divide a data chunk of the data chunks into a number of data segments. The system can divide respective data segments of the number of data segments into respective stripes. The system can write a first ...