Patent 10228867 was granted and assigned to Amplidata on March, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A distributed object storage system comprises an encoding module configured to calculate for a plurality of predetermined values of the spreading requirement the cumulative size of the sub fragment files when stored on the file system with the predetermined block size; and select as a spreading requirement from said plurality of predetermined values a calculated value that is equal to one of said predetermined values for which the cumulative size is minimal.