PrimaryIO Assigned Patent

PrimaryIO, Inc., San Carlos, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,645,901) developed by Nagaraj, Murali, Pune, India, for a “accelerating application write while maintaining high availability in shared storage clusters.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising: performing an application write, storing the application write in a local cache, performing a system call to request an underlying storage system to persist any application writes that are not yet persisted, and in response to the system call, copying the application write in the cache to a shared permanent storage. In another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: an application configured to perform an application write, a cache software configured to store the application write in a local cache, wherein the application is configured to perform a system call to request an underlying storage system to persist any application writes that are not yet persisted, and in response to the system call, the cache software is configured to copy the application write in the cache to a shared permanent storage.“

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2015 (14/659,773).