US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Data reconstruction in distributed storage systems" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,679, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Data reconstruction in distributed storage systems" was invented by Lidor Carmi (New York), Christian Eric Schrock (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) and Steven Robert Schirripa (Hazlet, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a distributed storage system, the method includes identifying missing chunks of a file. The file is divided into stripes that include data chunks and non-data chunks. The method also includes identifying non-missing chunks available for reconstructing the missing chunks and reconstructing missing data chunks before reconstruc...