US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 14 for "Data unit allocation in distributed storage systems" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,653, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data unit allocation in distributed storage systems" was invented by Ivan Rubin (Haifa, Israel), Adi Bar Shalom (Haifa, Israel) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises at least one processing device configured to identify data units stored on storage nodes of a storage system, wherein different subsets of the data units comprise data sub-units stored utilizing different data striping schemes. The at least one processing device is also configured to maintain a data structure charact...