iNuron Assigned Patent

iNuron NV, Lochristi, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (9,547,453) developed by Glazemakers, Kurt, Grembergen, Belgium, for a “method for layered storage of enterprise data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for layered storage of enterprise data comprises receiving from one or more virtual machines data blocks, de-duplicating the data blocks per hypervisor, storing de-duplicated data blocks in a local cache memory, time-based grouping the data blocks into data containers, dividing each data container in X fixed length mega-blocks, for each data container applying erasure encoding to the X fixed length mega-blocks to thereby generate Y fixed length mega-blocks with redundant data, Y being larger than X, and distributed storing the Y fixed length mega-blocks across multiple backend storage systems.“

The patent application was filed on April 8, 2014 (14/247,362).