FutureWei Assigned Patent

FutureWei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,201,733) developed by Verma, Ajit, Los Altos, CA, Hughes, James, Palo Alto, CA, and Liu, Xian, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “systems and methods for data repair.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An embodiment method for data repair in a storage system includes determining, by a processor, a minimum number of missing data blocks needed to repair a corrupted object in a first portion of the storage system, wherein the missing data blocks are not available in the first portion of the storage system, retrieving only the minimum number of missing data blocks needed to repair the corrupted object from a second portion of the storage system, and repairing the corrupted object in the first portion of the storage system using erasure codes and the retrieved minimum number of missing data blocks.“

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2013 (13/800,213).