iodyne Assigned Patent

iodyne, LLC, Mill Valley, CA, has been assigned a patent (11467777) developed by Bonwick, Jeffrey S., Los Altos, CA, for “method and system for storing data in portable storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for storing data in portable storage devices. Specifically, the disclosed method and system provide a solution for the write-hole problem inflicting persistent storage, especially redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configured storage. The write-hole problem may arise from the occurrence of power failure during a write operation of data to RAID configured storage, subsequently resulting in disparities between the data and parity information thereof—the consistency there-between of which is critical to data reconstruction upon disk failure. To rectify these inconsistencies, a full-stripe (or full-block set) write is recommended, which the disclosed method and system implements through the use of, and re-mapping of relationships between, virtual, physical, and in-memory block sets.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-12 (17/067932).