Overland Storage Assigned New Patent

Overland Storage, Inc., San Diego, CA has been assigned a patent (8,214,590) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for storing parity groups."

 The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups is described. The system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups operates on a computer storage system that includes a plurality of disk drives for storing parity groups. Each parity group includes storage blocks. The storage blocks include one or more data blocks and a parity block that is associated with the data blocks. Each of the storage blocks is stored on a separate disk drive such that no two storage blocks from a given parity set reside on the same disk drive. The computer system further includes a redistribution module to dynamically redistribute parity groups by combining some parity groups to improve storage efficiency."