ClearSky Data Assigned Patent

ClearSky Data, Inc., Boston, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,430,387) developed by Vekiarides, Lazarus, West Roxbury, MA, Suman, Daniel, Chapel Hill, NC, and Lacy, Janice Ann, Shrewsbury, MA, for a “decoupling data and metadata in hierarchical cache system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A coordinating node creates virtual storage from a hierarchy of local and remote cache storage resources by maintaining global logical block address, (LBA) metadata maps. A size of the metadata maps at each level of the hierarchy is independent of an amount of data allocated to a respective cache store at each level.“

The patent application was filed on July 16, 2014 (14/332,489).