Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Modern consumer and industrial electronics, especially dev ices such as cloud computing and/or storage,distributed computing and/or storag e, networked computing and/or storage, vehicles, televisions, smartphones, and combination devices, are providing increasing levels of functionality to support modern life.Storage systems and devices of various complexity, functionality, and installed in different network or systemtopology are ever increasing in imp ortance. Research and development in the existing technologies can take a myriad of different directions. As information usage increases and becomes more pervas ive, existingand new systems require overall reliability.