ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,876, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Interleaving raid slices allocation for fast rebuild" was invented by Kuolin Hua (Natick, Mass.), Kunxiu Gao (Boxborough, Mass.) and Jiahui Wang (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data protection super-slices with super-parity p are created from sets of two RAID slices a, b of width W that each include slice parity a, b. The tracks of each super-slice are distributed across the disks of a disk cluster of width 2W+1, and the same number of indexed sequences. Each of the indexed sequences contains one super-slice with the slice tracks a, b ...