Protocols for expanding existing sites in a dispersed storage network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10169229
APP PUB NO 20170060739A1
SERIAL NO

15347132

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A dispersed storage and task network (DSTN) includes a site housing current distributed storage and task (DST) execution units. A determination is made to add new DST execution units to the site. A first address range assigned to the plurality of current DST execution units is obtained, and a common magnitude of second address ranges to be assigned to each of the new DST execution units and the current DST execution units is determined based, at least in part, on the first address range. Insertion points for each of the plurality of new DST execution units are determined, and transfer address ranges are determined in accordance with the insertion points. Transfer address ranges correspond to at least the part of the first address ranges to be transferred to the new DST execution units. Address range assignments are transferred from particular current DST execution units to particular new DST execution units.

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  • IBM CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baptist, Andrew D Mt. Pleasant, US 283 616
Dhuse, Greg R Chicago, US 323 749
Motwani, Manish Chicago, US 257 3156
Volvovski, Ilya Chicago, US 361 8000

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