LABIOS Technology Receives U.S. Patent Protection
On April 18, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent 11,630,834 B2 (opens in a new tab), "Label-Based Data Representation I/O Process and System", to Illinois Institute of Technology. The inventors are Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, and Xian-He Sun, and the patent covers the label-based I/O method behind LABIOS, which received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at HPDC'19.
What the patent covers
The patent describes a system and method for executing I/O tasks in a distributed computing system. The operation instructions of each I/O request are separated from its data and represented as a data label, which carries a unique identifier, the source or destination of the data, and the operation. Labels are pushed into a distributed label queue and dispatched to worker nodes according to a scheduling policy, and the workers execute the I/O tasks independently of the client applications.