GRAID Technology Assigned Patent
Distributed journaling for write operations to RAID systems
By Francis Pelletier | April 24, 2025 at 2:00 pmGRAID Technology Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (12282390) developed by Tseng; Guo-Fu, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Lee; Jin-Jhang, Sung; Bo-Yi, Taipei, Taiwan, Liu; Po-Ting, and Chang; Cheng-Yue, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “distributed journaling for write operations to RAID systems.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Distributed journaling for write operations to RAID systems is disclosed, including: receiving a new write operation to a plurality of storage devices associated with a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group, wherein the plurality of storage devices comprises a main data storage and a non-volatile journal storage; writing a record of the new write operation to the non-volatile journal storage; after the record of the new write operation is written to the non-volatile journal storage, writing new data associated with the new write operation to the main data storage; and after the new data associated with the new write operation is written to the main data storage, invalidating the record of the new write operation in the non-volatile journal storage, wherein upon restarting the plurality of storage devices associated with the RAID group, the non-volatile journal storage is checked and valid records of one or more write operations included in the non-volatile journal storage are written to the main data storage.”
The patent application was filed on 2024-07-26 (18/785643).