Sanmina Assigned Patent

Sanmina Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,852,151) developed by Youngworth, Christopher, San Jose, CA, for a “network system to distribute chunks across multiple physical nodes with disk support for object storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of storing a file in a storage system that includes a plurality of memory-storage hosts includes: specifying a unique chunk identifier for a memory chunk included in the file, specifying a hash mapping to identify one or more storage locations for the chunk identifier, each storage location corresponding to a portion of a memory-storage host, providing metadata corresponding to the hash mapping to the memory-storage hosts, and storing the memory chuck at the one or more storage locations identified by the hash mapping by providing the chunk identifier to one or more memory-storage hosts corresponding to the identified one or more storage locations, the one or more memory-storage hosts implementing the hash mapping to store the memory chunk at the identified one or more locations.”

The patent application was filed on November 24, 2014 (14/552,387).