ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,399, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Array hash management for compute requests" was invented by Eric John Bartlett (Chard, Great Britain), Dominic Tomkins (Alton, Great Britain), Evelyn Marie Perez (Winchester, Great Britain) and Timothy Andrew Moran (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a compute request that corresponds to drive strips in a RAID array, and determining strip hash values that correspond to the respective drive strips. Drives in the RAID array that include one or more of the strip ha...