Twitter Assigned Patent

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,851,911) developed by Schuller, Peter, Goffinet, Christopher, Lee, Sangjin, Anand, Meher, Ceasar, Edward, and Bigian, Armond, San Francisco, CA, for a “dynamic distribution of replicated data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for data storage. The method can include: identifying, by a computer processor, a cluster map representing a set of storage resources, for each storage resource of the set of storage resources: traversing, by the computer processor, the cluster map to map the storage resource to a candidate resource set including at least one other storage resource of the set of storage resources, identifying a first data object associated with a storage request, identifying a first candidate resource set based on the first data object, and selecting a first final resource set based at least on the first candidate resource set, where the first data object is sent to storage resources of the first final resource set for storage.”

The patent application was filed on April 12, 2016 (15/096,987)