Patent ID: 9277010
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A virtual storage system comprising: a subset of servers including a plurality of processors and a plurality of memories; an aggregated virtual storage comprising the plurality of memories, each of the plurality of memories being associated with a corresponding server in the subset of servers; and a storage aggregator processor coupled to a memory including executable instructions to disperse duplicative data comprising copies of original data by distributing the copies of original data and the original data among the subset of servers or a portion thereof, and generate a data structure for storage in each memory in an associated server in the subset of servers, each of the data structures being configured to store a reference to duplicative data stored in a first number of servers in the subset of servers, the memory further including executable instructions to translate between disk memory access requests and access requests with the aggregated virtual storage, wherein the duplicative data provides redundancy when a second number of servers, or fewer, in the subset of servers are inaccessible.