Patents by Inventor Vance T. Thorton

Vance T. Thorton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for rebuilding data in a dispersed data storage network
    Patent number: 8713358
    Abstract: A method begins a first rebuilder application identifying a data slice having a storage error. The method continues with the first rebuilder application or a second rebuilder application identifying a data segment based on the identified data slice. The method continues with the second rebuilder application identifying one or more other slice servers that are storing other data slices of the encoded data segment. The method continues with the second rebuilder application receiving a sufficient number of the other data slices to reconstruct the data segment and decoding them to reconstruct the data segment. The method continues with the second rebuilder application encoding the reconstructed data segment in accordance with the information dispersal algorithm to produce a new set of data slices and selecting one of them as the rebuild data slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cleversafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Vance T. Thorton, Jamie Bellanca, Dustin M. Hendrickson, Zachary J. Mark, Ilya Volvovski