F5 Networks Assigned Patent

F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,195,500) developed by Rust, Stephen, Westborough, MA, Andrews, Michael, Stow, MA, and Meifert, Brian, Clinton, MA, for a “methods for seamless storage importing and devices thereof.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and device for seamless storage import includes importing file system structure entries stored in one or more storage devices. A request for an operation on one of the entries in the one or more storage devices is obtained during the importing. An import status of the requested one of the entries is determined. The obtained request is processed based on the determined import status of the requested one of the entries without interrupting the importing. The requested one of the entries is updated with the storage management computing device based on the processing. An aggregation of the imported entries with the updating of the requested one of the entries is stored.“

The patent application was filed on February 9, 2011 (13/024,147).