US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 9 for "Method and apparatus for generating chunk group and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,920, issued on June 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for generating chunk group and device" was invented by Piao Chen (Chengdu, China) and Feng Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After capacity expansion of a storage system, a large-width target chunk group is generated by using a plurality of original small-width source chunk groups in the storage system. In a stripe of the target chunk group, a check stripe unit part points to a check shard, and a data stripe unit part does not directly point to a data shard, but points to a data stripe unit of a source strip...