US Patent 11042330 Methods and systems for distributed data storage

Provided is a method of storing data in a distributed environment including a plurality of storage devices, the method including: receiving a request to store the data; calculating a hash value by applying a hashing function to a value associated with the data; splitting the hash value into a plurality of weights, each weight corresponding to one of a plurality of chunks; selecting a chunk of the plurality of chunks based on the weight; and storing the data in a corresponding storage device, the corresponding storage device corresponding to the selected chunk.