Patent ID: 8656101

Claim:
A system comprising: means for respectively processing each of a plurality of units of data storage information to compute one or more units of higher-level redundancy information in a first order that is in response to each of the plurality of units of data storage information becoming respectively available; means for determining particular one or more of the plurality of units of data storage information as uncorrectable units of data storage information based at least in part on respective lower-level redundancy information associated with each of the uncorrectable units of data storage information, the plurality of units of data storage information other than the uncorrectable units of data storage information being correctable units of data storage information; means for computing corrected versions of the uncorrectable units of data storage information via, at least in part, means for respectively processing each of the correctable units of data storage information in a second order that is in response to each of the correctable units of data storage information becoming respectively available; and wherein the first order is different than the second order.