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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Nikolas Ioannou, Zurich, CH;
Ioannis Koltsidas, Zurich, CH;
Roman A. Pletka, Zurich, CH;
Cheng-Chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
Radu Stoica, Zurich, CH;
Sasa Tomic, Kilchberg, CH;
Andrew D. Walls, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30159 (2013.01); G06F 17/3033 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for selecting a storage node of a storage system to store data include applying a first function to at least some data chunks of an extent to provide respective first values for each of the at least some data chunks. A storage node, included within multiple storage nodes of a storage system, is selected to store the extent based on a majority vote derived from the respective first values.