US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on March 3 for "Migrating erasure-coded data fragments within a growing distributed data storage system with at least data plus parity nodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,568, issued on March 3, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Migrating erasure-coded data fragments within a growing distributed data storage system with at least data plus parity nodes" was invented by Anand Vishwanath Vastrad (San Jose, Calif.) and Suhani Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data storage system that employs erasure coding grows from fewer than data-plus-parity (D+P) storage service nodes to at least D+P nodes. The system detects an increase in the number of available storage service nodes, i.e., at least D+P; analyzes how storage for each virtual disk is dist...