Igneous Assigned Patent

Igneous Systems, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,305,666) developed by Rakitzis, Triantaphyllos Byron, Lemar, Eric Michael, Hughes, Jeffrey Douglas, and Bhageshpur, Kiran V., Seattle, WA, for a “prioritized repair of data storage failures.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments are directed towards managing data storage that may experience a data failure. If a repair event is associated with a data storage failure, a new repair task may be generated and added to a task list. A priority value for each repair task in the task list may be determined based in part on the mean-time-to-data-loss, (MTTDL) value associated with each repair task in the task list such that a lower MTTDL may indicate a higher priority value over a lower MTTDL. One or more repair tasks may be promoted to become active repair tasks based on the priority value the repair tasks such that the promoted repair tasks have a higher priority that than other repair tasks in the task list, if any. Each active repair task may be executed to repair one or more associated the storage failures.“

The patent application was filed on July 6, 2015 (14/792,539).