Unigen Assigned Patent

Unigen Corporation, Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,619,389) developed by Roug, Anton, Fremont, CA, for a “system for a backward and forward application environment compatible distributed shared coherent storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for implementing a storage architecture on a storage board is disclosed. The method comprises enabling the storage board on a first application node of an application server in a shared network comprising a plurality of application nodes and a plurality of storage nodes. The method also comprises processing a read or write request from an application on the first application node and profiling data transmitted in the request to determine the manner in which to process the request. Further, the method comprises accessing one of a plurality of tiers of storage media to perform a read or write responsive to the request, wherein each tier of storage media can be distributed over multiple nodes. Finally, the method comprises updating a first cache based on a configuration policy and maintaining coherency between shared data in the first cache and caches implemented on other storage boards in the network.“

The patent application was filed on July 10, 2014 (14/328,586).