US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 7 for "Heterogeneous distributed file system using different types of storage mediums" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,922, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Heterogeneous distributed file system using different types of storage mediums" was invented by Jaehwan Lee (Fremont, Calif.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one general aspect, a system may include a plurality of data nodes. Each data node may include either or both of a first storage medium and a second storage medium that is slower than the first storage medium. Each data node may be configured to store a piece data in either the first storage medium or the second storage medium. The system may be conf...