US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Range deviation based namespace rebalancing in a distributed storage network" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,103, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Range deviation based namespace rebalancing in a distributed storage network" was invented by Huiying Xu (Morton Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for rebalancing a namespace range of a dispersed storage network (DSN) are provided. Aspects include calculating a namespace imbalance factor for each of a plurality of storage devices in the DSN, identifying a source storage device of the DSN having a largest namespace imbalance factor, determining a minimum namespace address, a maximum namespace address, ...