WekaIO has been assigned patents
(10545669) for "congestion mitigation in a distributed storage system," and (10545921) for "metadata control in a load-balanced distributed storage system," and has 41 more patents pending.
The
abstract of the patent (10545669) published by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office states: A system comprises a plurality of computing
devices that are communicatively coupled via a network and have a file
system distributed among them, and comprises one or more file system
request buffers residing on one or more of the plurality of computing
devices. File system choking management circuitry that resides on one or
more of the plurality of computing devices is operable to separately
control: a first rate at which a first type of file system requests
(e.g., one of data requests, data read requests, data write requests,
metadata requests, metadata read requests, and metadata write requests)
are fetched from the one or more buffers, and a second rate at which a
second type of file system requests (e.g., another of data requests,
data read requests, data write requests, metadata requests, metadata
read requests, and metadata write requests) are fetched from the one or
more buffers.
The patent (10545669) application was filed on March 15, 2019 (16/355,126).
The
abstract of the patent (10545921) published by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office states: A plurality of computing devices are
communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the
plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a
plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address
spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that
each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a
plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices
maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one
of the plurality of computing devices. The metadata is grouped into
buckets. Each bucket is stored in a group of computing devices. However,
only the leader of the group is able to directly access a particular
bucket at any given time.
The patent (10545921) application was filed on August 7, 2017 (15/670,189).
To read the patent abstracts and full detail go to: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/weka-io-ltd.