ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,067, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Data storage method and apparatus in storage system" was invented by Linbo Li (Chengdu, China) and Jun Tang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage method includes: calculating M check blocks of N first data blocks based on a first erasure coding (EC) technology; respectively storing the N first data blocks and the M check blocks of the N first data blocks into (N+M) storage nodes in a storage system; updating the first EC technology to a second EC technology; calculating R check blocks of S second data blocks based on the seco...