Aalborg Universitet Assigned Patent

Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Danemark, has been assigned a patent (10,270,468) developed by Sipos, Marton A., Budapest, Hungary, Lucani, Daniel E., Hobro, Danemark, Heide, Janus, Pedersen, Morten V., Aalborg, Danemark, and Fitzek, Frank H. P., Berlin, Germany, for “method for file updating and version control for linear erasure coded and network coded storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for use in a distributed storage system having a plurality of nodes, the method including receiving, at a source node, original data, encoding the original data into plurality of coded fragments using a linear code, transmitting at least a first one of the coded fragments from the source node to a first sink node. The method further includes receiving, at the source node, modified data, calculating, at the source node, a coded difference between the original data and the modified data, transmitting the coded difference from the source node to the first sink node, and recovering, at the first sink node, at least a first portion of the modified data using the coded difference and the at least a first one of the coded fragments.”

The patent application was filed on December 18, 2015 (14/973,850).